11-36-102. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Board" means the state board of agriculture;

(ii) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture or any of his duly authorized representatives;

(iii) "Dairy products" mean any product containing milk or any product derived therefrom either in their natural state or as a processed commodity;

(iv) "Handler" means any person engaged in the operation of processing, packaging, grading, selling, distributing, offering for sale or marketing any dairy product, or who as owner, agent or otherwise, stores, transports, ships or causes to be shipped any dairy product;

(v) "Marketing" means the sale or offering for sale, at prices at the wholesale levels, of any dairy product;

(vi) "Marketing order" means an order issued pursuant to this act;

(vii) "Marketing order area" means the state of Wyoming, unless the board divides the state into two (2) or more marketing areas;

(viii) "Milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one (1) or more healthy cows or goats;

(ix) "Prices at the wholesale levels" or "wholesale prices" mean the prices received by producers, processors or handlers for dairy products for resale, but the terms do not mean the retail prices paid for dairy products by the ultimate consumers thereof;

(x) "Processor" means any person engaged in the operation of receiving, grading, packaging, canning, extracting, preserving, manufacturing or changing the form or state of any dairy product for the purpose of marketing the product;

(xi) "Producer" means any person engaged in the business of producing or causing to be produced for marketing any dairy product;

(xii) "Proposal" means a suggested or recommended marketing order or the termination of a then existing order, submitted in writing by the director or to the director by any person or group;

(xiii) "This act" means W.S. 11-36-101 through 11-36-110.