(510 ILCS 101/10)
Sec. 10.
Definitions.
In this Act:
"Board" means the elected members of the Illinois Pork
Producers Association board of directors.
"Council" means the Illinois Swine Market Development Council
created by this Act.
"Director" means a member of the Illinois Swine Market
Development Council.
"Market agent", "market agency", "collection agent", or
"collection agency" means any person who sells, offers for sale,
markets, distributes, trades, or processes swine that has been
purchased or acquired from a producer or that is marketed on
behalf of a producer. The term also includes meat packing firms,
and their agents, that purchase or consign to purchase swine.
"Market" means to sell or to otherwise dispose of a swine
animal, pork, or pork product in commerce.
"Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation,
company, association, society, trust, or other business unit or
organization.
"Pork" means the meat from swine.
"Pork product" means a product produced or processed in whole
or in part from swine.
"Producer" means any person engaged in this State in the
business of producing or marketing swine, unless otherwise defined
in the marketing program.
"Swine" means all domesticated animals of the family Suidae.
(Source: P.A. 92-158, eff. 7-25-01.)
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