Section 22-205 - DefinitionsThe following terms shall be construed in this part to have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture; (2) "consumer" means any person, other than a dealer, who purchases milk for consumption or use; (3) "cooperative marketing association" means a producer-owned and producer-controlled association or corporation of producers, organized under the cooperative laws of this state, or of any other state and authorized to do business in this state, and conforming to the requirements of the Act of Congress of February 18, 1922, as amended, known as the "Capper-Volstead Act", and such association shall be governed by the applicable provisions of this part as to the prices at which it sells, markets or bargains to sell milk to dealers and others; (4) "dealer" means milk dealer, including any person, store, subdealer or producer-dealer, who purchases, receives, distributes or handles fluid milk or milk products for sale, but "dealer" does not include a producer who delivers milk to a dealer alone, retail raw milk producers, raw milk cheese manufacturers or a cooperative marketing association as herein defined. A cooperative marketing association, as defined in this section, shall be deemed a producer if such association sells milk to stores or consumers. It shall be deemed a dealer as to such operations and shall be governed by the provisions of this part applicable thereto; (5) "licensee" means a licensed dealer; (6) "marketing area" means any city, town, borough or state, or two or more cities, towns, boroughs or states, or parts thereof and territory contiguous thereto, so designated by the Commissioner of Agriculture and having reasonable uniformity or similarity of marketing conditions among producers or dealers; (7) "milk" means fluid milk and cream, all products defined in sections 22-127 and 22-133, fresh, sour or storage, skimmed milk, buttermilk and flavored milk or milk drink; and reference in this part to quantity of milk shall be construed to include its whole milk equivalent; (8) "person" means any individual, firm, corporation, limited liability company, partnership or association; (9) "producer" means a person producing milk and includes cooperative marketing associations; (10) "producer-dealer" means a dealer who is also a producer; (11) "store" means a grocery store, hotel, restaurant, drug store, dairy products store or any similar mercantile establishment which sells milk, except "store" does not include any establishment that sells milk only for consumption on the premises; (12) "subdealer" means any person, firm or corporation that sells fluid milk or milk products in their finished form for human consumption within the state to stores, other dealers or subdealers, restaurants, manufacturers or any place where the final sale of such fluid milk or milk products takes place in the same containers in which such person, firm or corporation purchased it from other dealers; (13) "cheese manufacturer" means any person, firm, corporation or dealer within the state that purchases fluid milk, or receives or handles fluid milk for the purpose of manufacturing cheese; (14) "yogurt manufacturer" means a milk dealer that purchases fluid milk or receives or handles fluid milk for the purpose of manufacturing yogurt for sale or distribution in the state; (15) "dry milk manufacturer" means any person, firm, corporation or dealer within the state who purchases fluid or dried milk, or receives or handles fluid or dried milk for the purpose of manufacturing or remanufacturing dry milk to be included or blended with fluid milk or be reconstituted into a milk product.Conn. Gen. Stat. § 22-205
(1949 Rev., S. 3113; 1959, P.A. 637, S. 2; 1961, P.A. 67; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 446, 448; P.A. 91-312, S. 32; P.A. 95-79, S. 86, 189; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146 (e); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 05-175, S. 15; P.A. 06-19, S. 6; P.A. 07-217, S. 98.)
Cited. 132 C. 597.