(510 ILCS 101/10)

Sec. 10. Definitions. In this Act:

"Board" means the elected members of the Illinois Pork Producers Association board of directors.

"Council" means the Illinois Swine Market Development Council created by this Act.

"Director" means a member of the Illinois Swine Market Development Council.

"Market agent", "market agency", "collection agent", or "collection agency" means any person who sells, offers for sale, markets, distributes, trades, or processes swine that has been purchased or acquired from a producer or that is marketed on behalf of a producer. The term also includes meat packing firms, and their agents, that purchase or consign to purchase swine.

"Market" means to sell or to otherwise dispose of a swine animal, pork, or pork product in commerce.

"Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, trust, or other business unit or organization.

"Pork" means the meat from swine.

"Pork product" means a product produced or processed in whole or in part from swine.

"Producer" means any person engaged in this State in the business of producing or marketing swine, unless otherwise defined in the marketing program.

"Swine" means all domesticated animals of the family Suidae.

(Source: P.A. 92-158, eff. 7-25-01.)