Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 40 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Chapter 40-12 - SEED DIVISION
Subject 40-12-1 - DEFINITIONS
Rule 40-12-1-.01 - Definitions
Current through Rules and Regulations filed through September 23, 2024
Terms used in these Rules are defined as follows:
(a) 'Commissioner' means the Commissioner of Agriculture or the designated section or employee employed by the Department of Agriculture of this state.
(b) 'Seed Dealer' means any person who sells seed, including persons who label seed, transfer and market seed within the trade or sell seed to purchasers, except for farmers or other persons that sell seed they produced and sell it as such at their own farm and they do not advertise or transfer it by any public carrier.
(c) 'Non-Commercial Seed Sharing' means that no monetary consideration or compensation may be transferred in return for receiving seeds. Additionally, anyone distributing seeds under the rules of this definition may not expect, or create the expectation, that seeds must be returned in exchange for receiving seeds. If distribution of seeds is found to be in anticipation or connection to money paid for work or services rendered by the same person distributing seeds, such distribution shall not be considered non-commercial within these rules.
Ga. L. 1956, p. 217, O.C.G.A. § 2-11-28.
