58-241. Definitions.
58-241
58-241. Definitions.As used in this act unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Agricultural chemical" means fertilizers, lime or agriculturalchemicals that are applied to crops or to land that is used for raisingcrops, including fertilizer material, plant amendment, plant food, soilamendment, pesticide and plant regulator.
(b) "Agricultural production input" means crop production inputs andlivestock production inputs.
(c) "Crop production input" means agricultural chemicals, seeds,petroleum products, custom application of agricultural chemicals and seedsand labor furnished in planting, cultivating, growing, producing,harvesting, drying and storing crops or crop products.
(d) "Feed" means commercial feeds, feed ingredients, mineral feeds,drugs, animal health products, supplements, customer-formula feeds or otherproducts, including grain, that are used for feeding livestock.
(e) "Lender" means a person in the business of lending money identifiedin the lien-notification statement.
(f) "Letter of commitment" means a binding, irrevocable andunconditional agreement by a lender to honor drafts or other demands forpayment upon the supplier presenting invoices signed by the purchaser orother proof of delivery.
(g) "Lien" means a lien for the unpaid retail cost of agricultural production input.
(h) "Livestock production input" means feed and labor furnished inraising livestock, but shall not include feed or labor for which thestatutory lien created by K.S.A. 58-207 and 58-220, and amendmentsthereto, relating toconfinement feeding of livestock may apply, which shall remain subject to thatstatute.
(i) "Person" means an individual or an organization as defined inK.S.A. 2009 Supp.84-1-201(b)(25), and amendmentsthereto.
(j) "Petroleum product" means motor fuels and special fuels that areused in the production and drying of crops and production of livestock,including motor-vehicle fuels, special fuels and liquefied petroleum gas,as defined in subsections (l) and (s) of K.S.A.79-3401 and subsection (b) of K.S.A. 79-3490, respectively, and amendmentsto these statutes and other petroleum products such as alcohol fuels,propane, lubes and oils.
(k) "Proceeds" means proceeds as defined in K.S.A. 84-9-306, andamendments thereto, except that if rights or duties are contingent uponexpress language in a financing statement, the requisite language mayexist in a lien-notification statement under K.S.A.58-242, and amendments thereto, and includes farmproducts, inventory, warehouse receipts and documents of title as definedin the uniform commercial code.
(l) "Seed" means agricultural seeds that are used to produce crops.
(m) "Supplier" means a person who furnishes agricultural production inputs.
History: L. 1985, ch. 4, § 1;L. 1992, ch. 106, § 3;L. 1995, ch. 262, § 23;L. 2007, ch. 89, § 29; July 1, 2008.