15.24.010 - Definitions.

Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

     (1) "Commission" means the Washington apple commission;

     (2) "Ship" means to load apples into a conveyance for transport, except apples being moved from the orchard where grown to a packing house or warehouse within the immediate area of production;

     (3) "Handler" means any person who ships or initiates a shipping operation, whether for himself, herself, or for another;

     (4) "Dealer" means any person who handles, ships, buys, or sells apples, or who acts as sales or purchasing agent, broker, or factor of apples;

     (5) "Processor" and "processing plant" means every person to whom and every place to which apples are delivered for drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting, cooking, or for use in producing a product or manufacturing a manufactured article;

     (6) "Processing apples" means all apples delivered to a processing plant for drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting, cooking, or for use in producing a product or manufacturing a manufactured article. However, "processing apples" does not include fresh apples sliced or cut for raw consumption;

     (7) "Fresh apples" means all apples other than processing apples;

     (8) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or his or her duly authorized representative;

     (9) "Grower district No. 1" includes the counties of Chelan, Okanogan, and Douglas;

     (10) "Grower district No. 2" includes the counties of Kittitas, Yakima, Benton, and Franklin;

     (11) "Grower district No. 3" includes all counties in the state not included in the first and second districts;

     (12) "Dealer district No. 1" includes the area of the state north of Interstate 90;

     (13) "Dealer district No. 2" includes the area of the state south of Interstate 90; and

     (14) "Executive officer" includes, but is not limited to, the principal management executive, sales manager, general manager, or other executive employee of similar responsibility and authority.

[2002 c 313 § 115; 1989 c 354 § 53; 1967 c 240 § 22; 1963 c 145 § 1; 1961 c 11 § 15.24.010. Prior: 1937 c 195 § 2; RRS § 2874-2.]

Notes: Effective dates -- 2002 c 313: See note following RCW 15.65.020.

Severability -- 1989 c 354: See note following RCW 15.36.012.