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31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966, unless otherwise noted.
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Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or any officer or employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to whom authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead.
Act means the Cotton Research and Promotion Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 2101-2118; Public Law 89-502, 80 Stat 279, as amended).
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity.
Cotton means:
(a) All Upland cotton harvested in the United States, and, except as used in §§ 1205.311 and 1205.335, includes cottonseed of such cotton and the products derived from such cotton and its seed, and
(b) Imports of Upland cotton, including the Upland cotton content of the products derived thereof. The term “cotton” shall not, however, include:
(1) Any entry of imported cotton by an importer which has a value or weight less than a de minimis amount established in regulations issued by the Secretary and
(2) Industrial products as that term is defined by regulation.
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Upland cotton means all cultivated varieties of the species Gossypium hirsutum L.
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Except as used in § 1205.322, Bale means the package of lint cotton produced at a cotton gin or the amount of processed cotton in a manufactured product that is equivalent to a 500 pound bale of lint cotton.
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Fiscal period is the 12-month budgetary period and means the calendar year unless the Cotton Board, with the approval of the Secretary, selects some other 12-months budgetary period.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Cotton Board means the administrative body established pursuant to § 1205.318.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Producer means any person who shares in a cotton crop actually harvested on a farm, or in the proceeds thereof, as an owner of the farm, cash tenant, landlord of a share tenant, share tenant, or sharecropper.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Importer means many person who enters, or withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs territory of the United States, and the term import means any such entry.
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Handler means any person who handles cotton, including the Commodity Credit Corporation.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Handle means to harvest, gin, warehouse, compress, purchase, market, transport, or otherwise acquire ownership or control of cotton.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
United States means the 50 States of the United States of America.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Cotton-producing State means each of the following States and combination of States: Alabama; Arizona; Arkansas; California-Nevada; Florida; Georgia; Kansas; Louisiana; Mississippi; Missouri-Illinois; New Mexico; North Carolina; Oklahoma; South Carolina; Tennessee-Kentucky; Texas; Virginia.
[75 FR 24374, May 5, 2010]
Marketing includes the sale of cotton or the pledging of cotton to the Commodity Credit Corporation as collateral for a price support loan.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Cotton-Producer organization means any organization which has been certified by the Secretary pursuant to § 1205.341.
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Cotton-Importer organization means any organization which has been certified by the Secretary pursuant to § 1205.342.
[56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Contracting organization or association means the organization or association with which the Cotton Board has entered into a contract or agreement pursuant to § 1205.328(c).
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Cotton-producing region means each of the following groups of cotton-producing States:
(a) Southeast Region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia;
(b) Midsouth Region: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri-Illinois, and Tennessee-Kentucky;
(c) Southwest Region: Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas;
(d) Western Region: Arizona, California-Nevada, and New Mexico.
[75 FR 24374, May 5, 2010]
Marketing year means a consecutive 12-month period ending on July 31.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]
Part means the cotton research and promotion order and all rules, regulations and supplemental orders issued pursuant to the act and the order, and the aforesaid order shall be a “subpart” of such part.
[31 FR 16758, Dec. 31, 1966. Redesignated at 56 FR 64472, Dec. 10, 1991]