525 ILCS 20/1: Definitions.

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-785)

As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-785)

Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Cultivated ginseng" means ginseng growing in tilled beds under shade of artificial structures.

"Department" means the Department of Natural Resources.

"Ginseng" means the root of the American ginseng plant (Panax quinquefolium). "Ginseng" includes, but is not limited to, the roots, rhizomes, leaves, and seeds of the American ginseng plant, which may be cultivated or wild. "Ginseng" does not include those parts of the American ginseng plant that have been processed.

"Green ginseng" means a root of ginseng from which the moisture has not been removed by drying. In this Act, the amount of dried ginseng rhizome that can be derived from green ginseng rhizome may be calculated using a ratio of 3.3 to one by weight.

"Grower" means a person who grows cultivated ginseng for the purpose of selling the ginseng.

"Harvester" means any person who harvests, possesses, transports, cuts, gathers, destroys, digs, or uproots wild ginseng for the purpose of selling the ginseng or for personal use.

"Root" means the ginseng rhizome and its roots.

"Wild ginseng" means ginseng in, or collected from, its natural habitat, notwithstanding whether the ginseng is native to that habitat or was introduced or increased in abundance by sowing ginseng seed or by transplanting ginseng plants from other areas.