As used in this chapter:

(1) “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, joint-stock company or syndicate, their lessees, trustees or receivers.

(2) “Dealer” means any person who solicits or receives any agricultural products from the producer or other supplier on consignment as a commission merchant, or who purchases agricultural products for resale at wholesale as a dealer, or who negotiates the purchase or sale of any agricultural product as a broker. The term “dealer” shall exclude the Southern Delaware Truck Growers Association Incorporated or similar organizations, and persons who operate as cash buyers.

(3) “Delaware broker” means any person whose principal place of business is in the State that has been engaged in the business of negotiating sales and purchases of any perishable agricultural products in the State for at least 5 years and has net assets in the State with value equal to or exceeding the bonding requirements of this chapter.

(4) “Cash buyer” means a dealer who pays for agricultural products in United States currency, certified checks, cashier’s checks or drafts issued by a bank at the time the product is removed from a producer’s and/or auction market’s premises.

(5) “Producer” means any person in this State who produces agricultural products.

(6) “Agricultural products” means fruits and vegetables, and for the purpose of this chapter shall be construed to include, but not by way of limitation, apples, cabbage, cantaloupes, cucumbers, melons, potatoes, sweet corn and tomatoes.

(7) “Department” means the Delaware Department of Agriculture.

(8) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Delaware Department of Agriculture.

3 Del. C. 1953, § 2501; 56 Del. Laws, c. 456, § 1; 57 Del. Laws, c. 764, § 11; 58 Del. Laws, c. 557, § 1; 65 Del. Laws, c. 116, § 1.