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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83260</law_id><section_number>3.2-1300</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-1104</reference><reference>3.2-1105</reference><reference>3.2-1106</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Boards, Councils, Foundations, and Commissions</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Commodity Boards</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="13">Cattle Industry Board</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Cattle</span> Industry <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Cattle</span>&#x201D; means beef-type and dairy-type <span class="dictionary">cattle</span> sold for a consideration in excess of $100 per head in the Commonwealth.
		&#x201C;Handler&#x201D; means, at the point where the <span class="dictionary">cattle</span> are weighed or traded and the value determined, an operator of any stockyard, livestock dealership, slaughterhouse, packing plant, or livestock auction market, or any other person who purchases from a <span class="dictionary">producer</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Producer</span>&#x201D; means any person engaged in the business of raising <span class="dictionary">cattle</span>.</p></section></text><history>1970, c. 310, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3.1-796.13, 3.1-796.26; 1978, c. 540; 1983, c. 375; 1985, cc. 237, 448; 2008, c. 860; 2018, c. 469.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
