Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 4 > Article 7 - Legislative Building Commission

• Adulterated: means and shall apply to any carcass, part thereof, meat product or poultry product under one or more of the following circumstances:

  (1) If it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2

• Antemortem: means before death. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• board: means a county board of education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Carcass: means all or any part of a slaughtered animal or poultry, including viscera, which is capable of being used for human consumption. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Commercial dealer: means any person who operates one or more commercial outlets and who sells or offers for sale thereat any carcasses, meat products or poultry products for human consumption, and who does not can, cook, cure, dry, smoke or render any carcass, meat products or poultry products at such outlets and who conducts no slaughtering or preparing of carcasses, meat products or poultry products at such outlets other than boning or cutting up of carcasses, and other than grinding, chopping and mixing operations at such outlets with respect to trim or meat derived only from such boning or cutting up operations. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Commercial outlet: means a place of business in this state and shall include all retail stores and public eating places in which carcasses, meat products or poultry products are stored, sold or offered for sale for human consumption by the purchaser or other individual consumers. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Commercial processor: means a processor for commercial outlets or distributors and shall include the business of custom processing. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Commercial slaughterer: means a person engaged for profit in this state in the business of slaughtering animals or poultry for human consumption which are to be sold or offered for sale through a commercial outlet or establishment, and shall include a person who in addition to such commercial slaughtering also engages in the business of a custom slaughterer. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Commercial slaughtering establishments: means a person engaged for profit in this state in the business of slaughtering or dressing animals for human consumption which are to be sold or offered for sale through a commercial outlet or establishment. See West Virginia Code 19-2E-3
• Commission: means the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. See West Virginia Code 18C-9-3
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture of the State of West Virginia and duly authorized representatives. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture of the State of West Virginia and his duly authorized representatives. See West Virginia Code 19-2E-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract veterinarian: means a graduate of a school of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association who provides services for the department under contract. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Council: means the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education. See West Virginia Code 18C-9-3
• Custom processor: means a processor in which the carcass, meat products or poultry products derived through processing cannot be sold or offered for sale through a commercial outlet, commercial establishment, distributor, or to an individual. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Custom slaughterer: means a person engaged for profit in this state in the business of slaughtering animals or poultry for human consumption which are not to be sold or offered for sale through a commercial outlet, commercial establishment, distributor, or to an individual, and shall include the boning or cutting up of carcasses of such animals or poultry and the grinding, chopping and mixing of the carcasses thereof. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Denature: means the uniform application of sufficient quantities of crude carbolic acid, cresylic disinfectant, or any other agent approved by the commissioner upon and into the freely slashed flesh of any carcass or product condemned. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture of the State of West Virginia. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Distributor: means a person engaged for profit in this state in the business where carcasses, meat products or poultry products are received from state inspected establishments, or establishments inspected by the United States Department of Agriculture and who stores and distributes to commercial outlets, processors or individuals and who conducts no processing. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Eligible institution: means a public community and technical college under the authority of the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education, or a public or not-for-profit private baccalaureate institution authorized by the Higher Education Policy Commission that grants associate degrees satisfying the requirements of participating in Advanced Career Education (ACE) program partnerships in accordance with §. See West Virginia Code 18C-9-3
• Eligible post-secondary program: means a curriculum of courses leading to a certificate or associate degree at an eligible institution which satisfies a course of study that has been deemed by the Department of Commerce to satisfy a workforce need as determined by the department in accordance with §. See West Virginia Code 18C-9-3
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Establishment: means any slaughterhouse, processing plant or distributor in this state. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Establishment number: means an official number assigned by the commissioner to each establishment and included on the inspection legend and label to identify all inspected and passed carcasses, meat product or poultry product handled in that establishment. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Inedible: means the carcass, meat product or poultry product derived from 4-D or condemned animals or poultry, or meat products or poultry products which have deteriorated or are otherwise unfit for human consumption. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Inspection legend: means a mark or a statement on a carcass, meat product or poultry product indicating the same has been inspected and passed in this state under the provisions of this article. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Inspector: means an individual employed by the department and authorized by the commissioner to perform on his or her behalf any inspection functions under this article. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on a container indicating the carcass, meat product or poultry product contained therein has been inspected and passed in this state under the provisions of this article. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• License: means any person licensed under the provisions of article two-b, chapter nineteen of the Code of West Virginia. See West Virginia Code 19-2E-3
• Licensee: means any person licensed under the provisions of this article. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Livestock: means cattle, swine, sheep or goats. See West Virginia Code 19-2E-3
• Meat: means the edible part of the muscle of animals which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, in the diaphragm, in the heart or in the esophagus, with or without the accompanying or overlying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not separated from it in the process of dressing. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Meat by-product: means any edible part of an animal or poultry other than meat or meat food product. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Meat food product: means any article of food for human consumption or any article which enters into the composition of food for human consumption, which is derived or prepared in whole or in part from any portion of any animal except organotherapeutic substances, meat juices, meat extract and the like which are only for medicinal purposes and are advertised only to the medical profession. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Meat product: means any meat, meat food product, and meat by-product capable of use as human food. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Official inspection mark: means any symbol prescribed by the commissioner for the purpose of identifying the inspection status of any meat product or poultry product so inspected. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• package: shall include , but not be limited to, any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic or any other receptacle, wrapper or cover. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, fiduciary or other group of persons whether organized or not. See West Virginia Code 19-2E-3
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• personal property: includes goods, chattels, real and personal, money, credits, investments, and the evidences thereof. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Postmortem: means after death. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Poultry: means any domesticated bird which is used or intended to be used for human consumption. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Poultry by-product: means any part or parts of poultry, other than eggs, capable of use as human food, other than poultry carcass which have been derived from one or more birds. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Poultry food product: means any product of poultry, other than eggs, capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any poultry meat or other portion of the carcass of poultry. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Poultry meat: means the carcass or parts of such carcass of any poultry. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Poultry product: means any poultry meat, poultry food product, and poultry by-product capable of use as human food. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Process: means to cut up, bone, chop, mix, grind, slice, cook, smoke, cure, salt, marinate, dry, can, or otherwise manufacture, or package any meat product or poultry product. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Processing plant: shall include , but not be limited to, all buildings, structures, chill rooms, aging rooms, processing rooms, sanitary facilities, other facilities, and utensils, used by or in connection with the operations of a processor. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Processor: means a person who engages for profit in this state in the business of processing carcasses, meat products or poultry products for human consumption. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Reinspection: means inspection of the processing of carcass, meat products and poultry products, as well as a reexamination of products previously inspected. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Related industries: means rendering plants, refrigerated meat warehouses, food lockers, meat and poultry wholesalers, brokers, pet food manufacturers, other animal food manufacturers, animal impoundments whose main source of food supply is derived from the raw meats, transportation firms and private carriers. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• School: means the students and teachers assembled in one or more buildings, organized as a unit. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Sell: means offer for sale, expose for sale, have in possession for sale, exchange, barter or trade. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Slaughterhouse: shall include , but not be limited to, all buildings, structures and facilities used in the slaughtering of animals or poultry for human consumption. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• State board: means the West Virginia Board of Education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• State inspection: means inspection services conducted by the department at or in connection with establishments required to be licensed by this article. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of free Schools. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Tuition: means the semester or term charges imposed by an eligible institution and, additionally, all mandatory fees required as a condition of enrollment by all students. See West Virginia Code 18C-9-3
• Veterinary supervisor: means a graduate of a school of veterinary medicine accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association, employed by the department and authorized by the commissioner to perform on his or her behalf any inspection and supervisory functions under this article. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2
• Wholesome: means sound, healthful, clean, and otherwise fit for human consumption. See West Virginia Code 19-2B-2