37-2601. DEFINITIONS. When used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Flour includes and shall be limited to the foods commonly known in the milling and baking industries as (a) white flour, also known as wheat flour or plain flour; (b) bromated flour; (c) self-rising flour, also known as self-rising white flour; and (d) phosphated flour, also known as phosphated white flour or phosphated wheat flour, but excludes whole wheat flour and also excludes special flour not used for bread, roll, bun, or biscuit baking, such as specialty cake, pancake and pastry flour.

(2) White bread means any bread made with flour, as defined in subdivision (1)(a) of this section, whether baked in a pan or on a hearth or screen, which is commonly known or usually represented and sold as white bread, including Vienna bread, French bread, and Italian bread.

(3) Rolls include plain white rolls and buns of the semi-bread dough type, namely: soft rolls, such as hamburger rolls, hot dog rolls, Parker House rolls, and hard rolls, such as Vienna rolls and Kaiser rolls, but shall not include yeast-raised sweet rolls or sweet buns made with fillings or coatings, such as cinnamon rolls or buns, and butterfly rolls.

(4) Director means the director of the department of agriculture.

(5) Person means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, or any group of persons whether incorporated or not, engaged in the commercial manufacture or sale of flour, white bread, or rolls.

History:

[37-2601, added 1961, ch. 109, sec. 1, p. 164; am. 1974, ch. 18, sec. 218, p. 364.]