Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 7 : Section 511


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/03/05
Section 511. Definitions

      When used in this chapter - 
      (a) "Person" includes partnerships, associations, and
    corporations, as well as individuals.
      (b) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United
    States.
      (c) "Inspector" means any person employed, licensed, or
    authorized by the Secretary to determine and certify the type,
    grade condition, or other characteristics of tobacco.
      (d) "Sampler" means any person employed, licensed, or authorized
    by the Secretary to select, tag, and seal official samples of
    tobacco.
      (e) "Weigher" means any person employed, licensed, or authorized
    by the Secretary to weight and certify the weight of tobacco.
      (f) "Tobacco" means tobacco in its unmanufactured form.
      (g) "Auction market" means a market or place to which tobacco is
    delivered by the producers thereof, or their agents, for sale at
    auction through a warehouseman or commission merchant.
      (h) Words in the singular form shall be deemed to import the
    plural form when necessary.
      (i) "Commerce" means commerce between any State, Territory, or
    possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside
    thereof; or between points within the same State, Territory, or
    possession, or the District of Columbia, but through any place
    outside thereof; or within any Territory or possession, or the
    District of Columbia. For the purposes of this chapter (but not in
    any wise limiting the foregoing definition) a transaction in
    respect to tobacco shall be considered to be in commerce if such
    tobacco is part of that current of commerce usual in the tobacco
    industry whereby tobacco or products manufactured therefrom are
    sent from one State with the expectation that they will end their
    transit, after purchase, in another, including, in addition to
    cases within the above general description, all cases where
    purchase or sale is either for shipment to another State or for
    manufacture within the State and the shipment outside the State of
    the products resulting from such manufacture. Tobacco normally in
    such current of commerce shall not be considered out of such
    current through resort being had to any means or device intended to
    remove transactions in respect thereto from the provisions of this
    chapter. For the purpose of this paragraph the word "State"
    includes Territory, the District of Columbia, possession of the
    United States, and foreign nations.



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