3.2-4764 - Definitions.
§ 3.2-4764. Definitions.
As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:
"Cotton gin" means a facility where cotton seed and cotton lint areproduced from raw cotton.
"Cotton handler" means any person doing business as a cotton gin, cottonmerchant, or cotton warehouse.
"Cotton merchant" means any person who buys cotton from a producer for thepurpose of resale, or acts as a broker or agent for a producer in arrangingthe sale of cotton. The term does not include a person that buys cotton forhis own use.
"Cotton warehouse" means any enclosure in which producer-owned cotton isstored or held for longer than 48 hours.
(2000, c. 584, § 3.1-722.29; 2008, c. 860.)