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U.S. Code as of:
01/03/05
Section 4302. Definitions
As used in this chapter -
(1) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture of
the United States Department of Agriculture.
(2) The term "person" means any individual, group of individuals,
partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other
entity.
(3) The term "cut flowers" means all flowers and decorative
foliage used as fresh-cut flowers, fresh-cut decorative foliage,
dried, preserved, and processed flowers, or dried and preserved
decorative foliage, produced either under cover or in field
operations.
(4) The term "potted flowering plants" means those plants that
normally produce flowers, primarily produced in pots or similar
containers, that are primarily used for interior decoration,
whether grown under cover or in field operations.
(5) The term "foliage plants" means those plants, normally
without flowers, primarily produced in pots or similar containers,
that are primarily used for interior decorations, whether grown
under cover or in field operations.
(6) The term "propagational material" means any plant material
used in the propagation of cut flowers, potted flowering plants,
and foliage plants, including cuttings, bulbs and corms, seedlings,
canes, liners, plants, cells or tissue cultures, air layers and
bublets,(!1) rhizomes, and root stocks. This term does not include
seeds.
(7) The term "flowers and plants" means cut flowers, potted
flowering plants, foliage plants, and propagational material.
(8) The term "United States" means the fifty States of the United
States of America, the territories and possessions of the United
States of America, and the District of Columbia.
(9) The term "promotion" means any action, including paid
advertising, to advance the image or desirability of cut flowers,
potted flowering plants, and foliage plants.
(10) The term "research" means any type of research to advance
the image, desirability, or marketability of cut flowers, potted
flowering plants, and foliage plants.
(11) The term "consumer education" means any action to provide
information on the care and handling of cut flowers, potted
flowering plants, and foliage plants.
(12) The term "marketing" means the sale or other disposition in
commerce of cut flowers, potted flowering plants, and foliage
plants.
(13) Unless otherwise noted, the term "producer" means any person
who produces domestically, for sale in commerce, cut flowers,
potted flowering plants, or foliage plants.
(14) The term "Floraboard" means the board provided for under
section 4306 of this title.
(15) The term "importer" means any person who imports cut
flowers, potted flowering plants, or foliage plants from outside of
the United States or who acts as an agent, broker, or consignee of
any person or nation that produces flowers and plants outside of
the United States for sale in the United States.
(16) The term "commodity group" means that portion of the flower
and plant industry devoted to the production and importation of any
one of the following: (A) cut flowers; (B) potted flowering plants;
or (C) foliage plants.
(17) The term "cost of plant material" means the actual price
paid by a producer for any propagational material or any other
flowers and plants used in the production of flowers and plants.
This term does not include the cost of seeds.
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