288.576 Definitions; O to R.

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Sec. 16.

As used in this act:

(a)"Offering for sale" means selling, offering to sell, holding for sale, preparing for sale, trading, bartering, offering as a gift as an inducement for sale of, and advertising for sale in any media.

(b)"Other security" means a mutually acceptable producer security agreement, acceptable to the director, approved and signed by the milk buyer and all milk sellers selling milk to that milk buyer.

(c)"Person" means an individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, cooperative, association, firm, trustee, educational institution, state or local government unit, or corporation.

(d)"Processor" means the owner or operator of a dairy plant.

(e)"Producer" means a person who owns or operates a dairy farm and sells or distributes milk produced on that farm including a person who markets milk on behalf of a producer pursuant to a marketing agreement.

(f)"Receiving station" means any place, premise, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and is prepared for further transporting.

(g)"Registered name" means either a name that is registered as "doing business as" at the county clerk’s office in the county in which the producer or processor resides or that is registered with the state of Michigan as a legal entity registered to do business within the state under an assumed name. Registered name includes, but is not limited to, incorporations, corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, and similar entities.

(h)"Rerun" means a frozen dessert that is not placed in its final container immediately after passing through the freezing process and is intended to be melted and reprocessed or refrozen.

(i)"Retail" means selling or offering for sale dairy products directly to a consumer.

(j)"Retail food establishment" means an operation that sells or offers to sell food directly to a consumer. Retail food establishment includes both a retail grocery and a food service establishment but does not include a food processing plant.

History: 2001, Act 267 , Eff. Feb. 8, 2002 ;-- Am. 2008, Act 147 , Eff. June 27, 2008