44-10-202 - Part definitions.
44-10-202. Part definitions.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Commissioner means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's appointed agent;
(2) Livestock means cattle, equine, swine, sheep, or goats;
(3) Livestock dealer means any person who buys, receives or assembles livestock for resale, either for that person's own account or that of another person;
(4) Livestock producer means any person who sells only livestock that that person has raised or that that person has owned and had in possession for a minimum of sixty (60) days; and
(5) Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity.
[Acts 1973, ch. 112, § 2; T.C.A., § 44-1911; Acts 2004, ch. 526, § 1.]