§ 511. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC511]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 21A--TOBACCO INSPECTION
Sec. 511. Definitions
When used in this chapter--
(a) ``Person'' includes partnerships, associations, and
corporations, as well as individuals.
(b) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United
States.
(c) ``Inspector'' means any person employed, licensed, or authorized
by the Secretary to determine and certify the type, grade condition, or
other characteristics of tobacco.
(d) ``Sampler'' means any person employed, licensed, or authorized
by the Secretary to select, tag, and seal official samples of tobacco.
(e) ``Weigher'' means any person employed, licensed, or authorized
by the Secretary to weight and certify the weight of tobacco.
(f) ``Tobacco'' means tobacco in its unmanufactured form.
(g) ``Auction market'' means a market or place to which tobacco is
delivered by the producers thereof, or their agents, for sale at auction
through a warehouseman or commission merchant.
(h) Words in the singular form shall be deemed to import the plural
form when necessary.
(i) ``Commerce'' means commerce between any State, Territory, or
possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof;
or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or
the District of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or
within any Territory or possession, or the District of Columbia. For the
purposes of this chapter (but not in any wise limiting the foregoing
definition) a transaction in respect to tobacco shall be considered to
be in commerce if such tobacco is part of that current of commerce usual
in the tobacco industry whereby tobacco or products manufactured
therefrom are sent from one State with the expectation that they will
end their transit, after purchase, in another, including, in addition to
cases within the above general description, all cases where purchase or
sale is either for shipment to another State or for manufacture within
the State and the shipment outside the State of the products resulting
from such manufacture. Tobacco normally in such current of commerce
shall not be considered out of such current through resort being had to
any means or device intended to remove transactions in respect thereto
from the provisions of this chapter. For the purpose of this paragraph
the word ``State'' includes Territory, the District of Columbia,
possession of the United States, and foreign nations.
(Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 731.)
