R65-5-2. Definitions of Terms

A. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture and Food of the State of Utah.

B. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, legal representative, or any organized group of individuals.

C. "Cherries" mean all marketable Red Tart and Sour cherries produced and sold to manufacturers or consumers.

D. "Producer" means any person in this state in the business of producing or causing to be produced Red Tart or Sour cherries, that has a minimum of 300 trees or has received $500.00 or more from a processor for the previous year's production.

E. "Registered" producer means a producer who has indicated that he/she wants to be included in the marketing order voting process by registering to vote in the referendum. Registration forms may be mailed out with the ballots. Only registered voting producers will be counted.

F. "Known" producers means a producer of a specific commodity who has been identified by the commodity group, her/himself, or a third party as being eligible to register to vote in a referendum affecting that specific commodity.

G. "Processor" means any person engaged in canning, freezing, dehydrating, fermenting, distilling, extracting, preserving, grinding, crushing, or in any other way preserving or changing the form of cherries for the purpose of marketing them.

H. "Board" means Red Tart and Sour Cherry Marketing Board.