Section 246.010 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Board" means the state Board of Agriculture;(2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;(3) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture;(4) "Structure" means a building erected as a shelter for human beings, animals or agricultural products, equipment, or supplies;(5) "Agriculture" means the business of raising or producing:(a) Crops, the products of which are used for food, feed, fiber, energy, or pharmaceuticals;(b) Horticulture products;(d) Aquaculture products;(e) Livestock, poultry, and ratite birds and eggs;(f) Milk and milk products;(g) Eggs and egg products;(h) Bees and bee products; and(6) "Horticulture" means the business of raising fruits, nuts, vegetables, flowers, ornamental plants, shrubs, trees, herbs, and the starts or transplants needed to produce these items;(7) "Aquaculture" means the science, art, and business of producing and raising aquatic organisms under controlled or semicontrolled conditions;(8) "Livestock" means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, or equine species, deer and elk, whose regulatory requirements are under KRS Chapters 150 and 246, that are privately owned and raised in a confined area for breeding stock, food, fiber, and other products; and(9) "Poultry" means chickens, ducks, turkeys, or other domestic fowl being raised or kept on any premises in the Commonwealth for profit.Effective:3/28/2002
Amended 2002, Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 3, effective3/28/2002. -- Amended 2001, Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 1, effective 6/21/2001. -- Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 96, sec. 1. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective 10/1/1942, to clarify chapter.