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[CITE: 7USC6202]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
     CHAPTER 91--LIME PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND CONSUMER INFORMATION
 
Sec. 6202. Definitions

    As used in this chapter:

                              (1) Board

        The term ``Board'' means the Lime Board provided for under 
    section 6204(b) of this title.

                      (2) Consumer information

        The term ``consumer information'' means any action taken to 
    provide information to, and broaden the understanding of, the 
    general public regarding the use, nutritional attributes, and care 
    of limes.

                             (3) Handle

        The term ``handle'' means to sell, purchase, or package limes.

                             (4) Handler

        The term ``handler'' means any person in the business of 
    handling limes.

                            (5) Importer

        The term ``importer'' means any person who imports limes into 
    the United States.

                              (6) Lime

        The term ``lime'' means the fruit of a citrus latifolia tree for 
    the fresh market.

                            (7) Marketing

        The term ``marketing'' means the sale or other disposition of 
    limes in commerce.

                              (8) Order

        The term ``order'' means a lime research, promotion, and 
    consumer information order issued by the Secretary under section 
    6203(a) of this title.

                             (9) Person

        The term ``person'' means any individual, group of individuals, 
    partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal 
    entity.

                            (10) Producer

        The term ``producer'' means any person who produces limes in the 
    United States for sale in commerce.

                        (11) Producer-handler

        The term ``producer-handler'' means any person who is both a 
    producer and handler of limes.

                           (12) Promotion

        The term ``promotion'' means any action taken under this chapter 
    (including paid advertising) to present a favorable image for limes 
    to the general public with the express intent of improving the 
    competitive position and stimulating the sale of limes.

                            (13) Research

        The term ``research'' means any type of research relating to the 
    use and nutritional value of limes and designed to advance the 
    image, desirability, marketability, or quality of limes.

                           (14) Secretary

        The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture.

                    (15) State and United States

        The term--
            (A) ``State'' means each of the 50 States of the United 
        States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto 
        Rico; and
            (B) ``United States'' means the 50 States of the United 
        States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto 
        Rico.

(Pub. L. 101-624, title XIX, Sec. 1953, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3871; 
Pub. L. 103-194, Sec. 3, Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2295.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Par. (6). Pub. L. 103-194 substituted ``citrus latifolia'' for 
``citrus aurantifolia''.
