As used in the Dairy Act:

A. "board" means the board of regents of New Mexico state university;

B. "department" means the New Mexico department of agriculture;

C. "person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, society, association, trustee or company;

D. "dairy product" means milk, whether fluid, dried, evaporated, stabilized, condensed or otherwise processed, cream, milk products, ice cream, frozen custard, French custard, ice milk, frozen dessert or any other food product principally derived from milk;

E. "milk" means the whole, clean, lacteal secretion obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows or goats, properly fed and kept, delivered from the dairy farm to any receiving or distributing establishment or factory within a reasonable time, excluding that obtained within fifteen days before and five days after calving or such longer period as may be necessary to render the milk practically colostrum free;

F. "handler" or "processor" means a person other than a retailer who receives or buys for resale or processes or manufactures milk or dairy products to be sold to others for consumption or resale, but does not include those persons engaged in the manufacture of soft-serve frozen desserts for sale directly to consumers; and

G. "retailer" means any person who buys milk or dairy products and who resells the same to consumers without further processing or manufacturing thereof.

History: 1953 Comp., § 52-1-31, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 375, § 2.