New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter IV - Markets › Subchapter F - MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (ARTICLE 25 AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW) › Part 203 - New York State Onion Research And Development Program › Section 203.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Act means
				  article 25 of the Agriculture and Markets Law of the State of New
				  York.
(b) Advisory board means the
				  advisory board established pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 9 of
				  section 294 of article 25 of the Agriculture and Markets Law and section
				  203.3 
				  of this Part.
(c) Central area
				  means that part of the State of New York consisting of the following counties:
				  Wayne, Tioga, Broome, Seneca, Schuyler, Cayuga, Madison, Chemung, Oswego,
				  Oneida, Onondaga, Lewis, Cortland, Jefferson, Tompkins and Chenango.
(d) Eastern area means that part of the State
				  of New York consisting of the following counties: Franklin, Clinton, Essex,
				  Hamilton, Warren, Herkimer, Otsego, Delaware, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton,
				  Saratoga, Washington, Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Greene, Columbia,
				  Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan, Orange, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, Nassau,
				  Suffolk and St. Lawrence.
(e)
				  Western area means that part of the State of New York consisting of the
				  following counties: Niagara, Monroe, Erie, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming,
				  Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany, Steuben, Yates, Ontario and
				  Livingston.
(f) Commissioner means
				  the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets of the State of New York, or any
				  officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture and Markets to whom
				  authority may be delegated to act pursuant to section 17  of the Agriculture and Markets
				  Law.
(g) Declaration of planted
				  acres means a statement, the form of which shall be prescribed by the
				  commissioner, upon which the owner, lessee or other operator of an
				  onion-growing farm shall declare the number of acres of onions in
				  production.
(h) Department means
				  the Department of Agriculture and Markets of the State of New York.
(i) Grower means any person who produces or
				  causes to be produced onions as defined herein.
(j) Handler means any person engaged within
				  New York State in buying and/or selling, offering for sale, marketing,
				  processing and distributing onions or onion products which he has purchased or
				  acquired from a grower, or which he is marketing on behalf of a grower, whether
				  as owner, agent, employee, broker or otherwise.
(k) Marketing season means the period
				  beginning April 1st of any year and extending through March 31st of the
				  following year.
(l) Planted onions
				  means the botanical structures used for planting purposes in New York State and
				  commonly referred to as seeds or sets or plants.
(m) Onions means all onions produced in New
				  York State for the purpose of sale.
(n) Person means any individual, firm,
				  corporation, partnership, company, unincorporated association, agency or
				  institution.
(o) Research means any
				  type of activity to advance the image, desirability, marketability, production
				  or quality of onions or onion products and the accumulation and dissemination
				  of research data with respect thereto.
(p) Program means the New York State Onion
				  Research and Development Program (marketing order).