KRS 260.775: Definitions for KRS 260.775 to 260.845.

As used in KRS 260.775 to 260.845, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Board" means the Kentucky Milk Handlers Advisory Board;

(2) "Buy" means the receiving of milk from producers or their agents and paying for the

milk on the basis of volume and test, or weight and test;

(3) "Director" means the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, College of

Agriculture, University of Kentucky, or his or her designee;

(4) "Handler" means any person who receives, bargains, brokers, or issues payment for

or purchases milk from Kentucky permitted producers or the permitted producers'

agents;

(5) "Laboratory" means the location or work area where milk analysis or testing takes

place;

(6) "Laboratory license" means the license issued to a milk laboratory;

(7) "License to handle" means the license issued to a handler of milk;

(8) "License to sample and weigh" means the license issued to a milk sampler-weigher;

(9) "License to test" means the license issued to a milk tester;

(10) "Location" means each separate business place where permitted producers' milk or

milk samples are received, stored, or processed, or where records pertaining to

permitted producers' milk tests or payments are kept;

(11) "Milk" means the lacteal secretion and all of its components, obtai ned by the

milking of animals;

(12) "Milk importer" means any person who delivers milk from producers outside the

Commonwealth of Kentucky to processors in this state;

(13) "Milk processor" means any location where milk or milk products are collected,

handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, bottled, or prepared for distribution by a

milk handler;

(14) "Milk receiving station" means any location where producers' raw farm milk is

collected, handled, or stored by a milk handler;

(15) "Permitted producer" means any producer issued a permit by the Kentucky Cabinet

for Health and Family Services to offer milk for sale;

(16) "Person" shall mean any individual, bargaining agent, broker, processor, milk plant

operator, partnership, cooperati on, concern, corporation, organization, company,

firm, trustee, association, or agent thereof;

(17) "Producer" means any person keeping animals for the production of milk;

(18) "Record" means any information relating to milk weights, tests, transfers,

purchases, receipts, and sales;

(19) "Sampler-weigher" means any person who samples, weighs, or measures milk from

producers and submits these samples, weights, or measurements for use in

determining the price paid for milk;

(20) "Test" means to analyze a milk sample to determine the amount of a milk

component or to determine milk quality;

(21) "Tester" means any person who tests milk from permitted producers to determine its

components or quality, or submits these tests for use in determining the price paid

for milk;

(22) "Transfer station" means any location where farm bulk milk is transferred directly

from one (1) tank to another and producers' milk samples are collected, handled,

stored, and transported to a laboratory for analysis; and

(23) "Transfer station license" means the license issued to operate a transfer station.