Montana Code Annotated 1997

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     80-11-402. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Committee" means the Montana mint committee established in 2-15-3006.
     (2) "First purchaser" means a person, partnership, association, cooperative, or other business unit or device that first buys mint oil for subsequent sale or that acts as a sales or purchasing agent, broker, or factor of mint. The term includes a mortgagee, pledgee, lienor, or other person, public or private, having a claim against a grower, where the actual or constructive possession of mint oil is taken as partial payment or in satisfaction of a mortgage, pledge, lien, or claim.
     (3) "Grower" means a landowner who is personally engaged in growing mint, a tenant who is personally engaged in growing mint, or both the landowner and tenant jointly, and includes a person, partnership, association, corporation, trust, sharecropper, or other business unit, device, or arrangement that grows mint.
     (4) "Sale" means any pledge or mortgage of mint oil to any person, public or private.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 182, L. 1989.

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