PART I. FRESH FRUITS, VEGETABLES,

NUTS,HONEY, AND COFFEE

 

Note

 

  Part heading amended by L 2008, c 167, §2.

 

§147-1  Definitions.  As used in thispart, the term:

"Agricultural commodity" means freshfruits and fresh vegetables of every kind and character, whether or not frozenor packed in ice, whether produced in the State or imported, nuts, and coffee,whether cherry or parchment, or green beans, which have been produced in theState, and raw unprocessed honey, whether produced in the State or imported.

"Consumer" means any person or firmpurchasing agricultural commodities for human consumption or animalconsumption;

"Department" means the department ofagriculture;

"Offgrade" is a descriptive termapplicable to agricultural commodities which have a market value, anddesignates a quality lower than the lowest applicable in Hawaii, other statesor the United States grade for each agricultural commodity;

"Produce dealer" means any personother than a producer who is engaged in the selling, marketing, or distributingof any agricultural commodity or in the business of soliciting or negotiatingthe sale of any farm product, but does not include any person selling solely atretail.  For the purposes of this definition, sales to the United States army ornavy, restaurants, hotels, hospitals, or other institutions are not retailsales;

"Producer" means any person engagedwithin the State in the growing or production for market of any agriculturalcommodity, or any cooperative association of such persons.

"Raw unprocessed honey" means honeythat has not been heated above one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit, orfiltered through a fine screen of less than one-sixty-fourth inch mesh, ortreated with diatomaceous earth, or in any other way that results in the lossof any natural constituent of honey, such as plant pollen and enzymes. [L 1945,c 252, §1; RL 1955, §22-1; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §22; am L 1961, c 64, §1 and c132, §2; am L 1965, c 73, §§1 to 3; HRS §147-1; am L 1983, c 257, §2; am L2008, c 167, §3]

 

Revision Note

 

  Numeric designations deleted and definitions rearranged.