OAR 657-010-0010: Definitions

(1) “Person” means any individual, corporation, association, partnership, or joint stock company. (2) “Commission” means the Oregon Ryegrass Growers Seed Commission. (3) “Casual Sale” means any sale or sales of ryegrass seed made by the producer direct to the consumer where the total accumulated sales during a calendar year is not more than 100 pounds. (4) “First Purchaser” means any person who buys ryegrass seed from the producer in the first instance, or handler who received the ryegrass seed in the first instance from the producer for resale or processing. (5) “Producer” means a person or other legal entity producing ryegrass seed in Oregon for market, whether as landowner, landlord, tenant, sharecropper, or otherwise. (6) “Handler” means any producer, processor, or distributor or other person engaged in handling or marketing of or dealing in ryegrass seed, whether as owner, agent, employee, broker, or otherwise. (7) Ryegrass Seed includes seed of all common or named varieties of annual and perennial ryegrass seed (bot.-Lolium multiflorum L., Lolium prenne L., plus all interspecific hybrids).