[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1000.2]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1000_GENERAL PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL MILK MARKETING ORDERS--Table 
of Contents
 
                          Subpart B_Definitions
 
Sec.  1000.2  General definitions.


    (a) Act means Public Act No. 10, 73d Congress, as amended and as 
reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 
1937, as amended (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).
    (b) Order or Federal milk order means the applicable part of 7 CFR, 
chapter X, issued pursuant to Section 8c of the Act as a Federal milk 
marketing order (as amended).
    (c) Department means the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
    (d) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United 
States or any

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officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has heretofore 
been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act 
in his stead.
    (e) Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, 
association, or other business unit.