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The following terms shall have the meaning stated below:\n(a) Manufacturer. — Means the person who owns, manages, or is in charge of an establishment engaged in the production of agricultural and livestock animal products and byproducts.\n(b) Industry. — Means each of the specific agricultural and livestock activities.\n(c) Surplus. — Means production in excess of the agricultural and livestock market needs which can be used to manufacture byproducts among other uses.\n(d) Agriculture and livestock industries. — Means all the agriculture and livestock industries currently in production in Puerto Rico, as well as any other that emerges in the future.\n(e) Intermediary. — Means the person who owns, manages, or is in charge of marketing agriculture and livestock industry produce in one or several phases of the marketing process.\n(f) Office. — Means the Puerto Rico Agriculture and Livestock Industry Regulating Office.\n(g) Regulating officer. — Means the official designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to develop the regulation of the agriculture and livestock industries.\n(h) Person.

ndustry Regulating Office.\n(g) Regulating officer. — Means the official designated by the Secretary of Agriculture to develop the regulation of the agriculture and livestock industries.\n(h) Person. — Means any individual, corporation, association, cooperative, partnership, or any other type of organization permitted by law.\n(i) Producer. — Means a person who owns, manages, leases, or is in charge of a farm devoted to agriculture and livestock production for commercial purposes.\n(j) Secretary. — Means the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico.\n(k) Sector. — Means the group of persons engaged in a similar activity within an agriculture and livestock industry, such as coffee growers, processors and exploiters.\nHistory —Sept. 18, 1996, No. 238, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.