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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63755</law_id><section_number>3.2-1800</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="18">Potato Board</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="1">Potato Board Membership and Authority</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Approved seed potatoes</span>&#x201D; means disease-free potatoes and parts thereof that conform to the standards established by the Potato <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Board</span>&#x201D; means the Potato <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Handler</span>&#x201D; means any person who is a processor, dealer, shipper, or exporter who purchases potatoes from a grower, or who acts as the grower&#x2019;s agent, or any person who holds a produce dealer or commission merchant license from the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>. The term also means any <span class="dictionary">producer</span> who packs, processes, or otherwise performs the functions of a <span class="dictionary">handler</span> pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Jurisdiction</span>&#x201D; means any locality where potatoes are produced according to the records of the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>.
		&#x201C;Potatoes&#x201D; means all varieties of potatoes except sweet potatoes.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Producer</span>&#x201D; means any person who, in a calendar year, grows a minimum of 40,000 pounds of potatoes in the Commonwealth.
		&#x201C;Seed potatoes&#x201D; means potatoes and parts thereof intended for the propagation or production of commercial potatoes.</p></section></text><history>1982, c. 126, &#xA7;&#xA7; 3.1-684.21, 3.1-684.39; 2008, c. 860; 2012, cc. 803, 835.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
