§144-2  Definitions.  When used in thischapter:

(1)  The term "person" includes individual,partnership, corporation, and association.

(2)  The term "distribute" means to offerfor sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply feed, commercial feeds or custom-mixedfeeds.  The term "distributor" means any person who distributes.

(3)  The term "sell" or "sale"includes exchange.

(4)  The term "official name" of a feedingredient means the name of a feed ingredient which is defined in the currentofficial publication of the Association of American Feed Control Officials,Incorporated.

(5)  The term "feed" means all ediblematerials consumed by animals, other than dogs, cats, or other domestic pets,which contribute energy or nutrients to the animal's diet, and which aredistributed or imported.

(6)  The term "commercial feed" means allfeed except:

(A)  Whole seeds unmixed or physically alteredentire unmixed seeds, when not adulterated within the meaning of section 144-6,which are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed.

(B)  Hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks,and hulls (i) when unground or (ii) when unmixed with other materials.

(C)  Wet garbage.

(D)  Individual chemical compound when notmixed with other materials.

(E)  Unmixed feeding cane molasses, unmixedpineapple pulp, unmixed pineapple hay, and unmixed sugarcane hay.

(7)  The term "feed ingredient" means eachof the constituent materials making up a feed.

(8)  The term "mineral feed" means asubstance or mixture of substances designed or intended to supply primarilymineral elements or inorganic nutrients.

(9)  The term "drug" means any articleintended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or preventionof disease in animals other than human and articles other than feed intended toaffect the structure or any function of the animal body.

(10)  The term "manufacture" means to grind,mix, or blend, or further process a commercial feed for distribution.

(11)  The term "custom-mixed feed" means aspecial commercial mixture which is formulated by the manufacturer or processorin accordance with the specific instructions of the final purchaser andcontains feed material or materials wholly or partly supplied by suchmanufacturer or processor.

(12)  The term "toll-milled feed" means aspecial feed which is processed by the processor (A) from materials entirelydelivered by the owner thereof or the owner's authorized agent, and (B) inaccordance with the specific instructions of such owner, and which is notdistributed.

(13)  The term "commercial mixed feed" meansa commercial feed which is a mixture or blend of more than one feed ingredient.

(14)  The term "commercial simple feed" meansa commercial feed that consists of only one feed ingredient.

(15)  The term "brand name" means any word,name, symbol, or device or any combination thereof identifying the commercialfeed of a distributor and distinguishing it from that of others.

(16)  The term "product name" means the nameof the commercial feed which identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use.

(17)  The term "label" means a display ofwritten, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container in which acommercial feed is distributed or imported, or on the invoice or delivery slipwith which a commercial feed or custom-mixed feed is distributed or imported.

(18)  The term "ton" means a net weight oftwo thousand pounds avoirdupois.

(19)  The term "per cent" or"percentage" means percentage by weight.

(20)  The term "official sample" means anysample of feed taken by the department or its agent and designated as"official" by the department. [L 1959, c 275, pt of §1; am L Sp 19592d, c 1, §22; am L 1961, c 132, §2; Supp, §24-3; HRS §144-3; am L 1969, c 27,§§1, 2; am L 1979, c 186, pt of §1; am and ren L 1983, c 214, pt of §2; gen ch1985]

 

Revision Note

 

  Section"144-6" substituted for "144-7".