As used in the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Act:

1. "Agricultural commodity" means an agricultural commodity, horticultural commodity, silvicultural commodity, or agricultural product, horticultural product, viticulture, or silvicultural product, or bees and honey, planting seed, livestock or livestock product, or poultry or poultry product produced in this state, either in its natural state or as processed by the producer;

2. "Board" means an agricultural commodity producers board of a certified organization or a successor organization;

3. "Certified organization" means the agricultural commodity entity certified by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to conduct a referendum;

4. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry;

5. "District" means a geographical area within the jurisdiction of a board;

6. "Person" means an individual, firm, corporation, association, or any other business entity;

7. "Processor" means a person who:

a.is a purchaser, warehouseman, processor, or other commercial handler of an agricultural commodity, or

b.is engaged in the operation of packing, grading, selling, offering for sale or marketing any agricultural commodity in commercial quantities as defined in a marketing program, who as owner, agent, or otherwise, ships or causes agricultural commodities to be shipped;

8. "Producer" means a person engaged in the business of producing or causing to be produced for commercial purposes an agricultural commodity. The term "producer" includes the owner of a farm on which the commodity is produced and the owner's tenant or sharecropper;

9. "Successor organization" means the agricultural commodity entity approved by the Commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry to succeed an existing statutory commodity producers board; and

10. "Volume of production" shall be defined by the certified organization and can refer to units of product sold such as pounds, tons, bushels, gallons, flats, containers, packages, or other commonly recognized units of measure, square footage or acreage of production space or other appropriate measurement units, or number of production units such as trees, vines, head count of livestock or poultry, or other commonly recognized measurement units, or gross sales.

Added by Laws 1999, c. 123, § 3, eff. July 1, 1999. Amended by Laws 2014, c. 1, § 3, eff. July 1, 2014.