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505 ILCS 25/2

(505 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 5, par. 1402)

Sec. 2. Definitions.

In this Act, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(a) "Beef" and "Beef products" means the meat intended for human consumption
from any bovine animal, regardless of age, including veal.

(b) "Cattle" means such animals as may be so designated by federal
law, including such marketing, promotion and research orders as may from
time to time be in effect.  Unless such federal law provides to the
contrary, "cattle" means  all bovine animals, regardless of age, including calves,
except that cattle provided for dairy purposes shall be excluded during
their useful life as dairy animals.  A cow and nursing calf sold together
shall be considered one unit.

(c) "Checkoff Division" means the Checkoff Division of the Illinois Beef Association Board of Governors.

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

(e) "Market Agent", "Market Agency", "Collection Agent" or "Collection
Agency" means any person who sells, offers for sale, markets, distributes,
trades or processes cattle which has been purchased or acquired from a producer,
or which is marketed on behalf of a producer, and further includes meatpacking
firms and their agents which purchase or consign to purchase cattle.

(f) "Director" means a member of the Checkoff Division.

(g) "Board" means the elected members of the Checkoff Division.

(h) "Producer" means a person that has owned or sold cattle in the previous
calendar year or presently owns cattle.

(Source: P.A. 99-389, eff. 8-18-15.)