§ 3802. — 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: 7USC3802]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 69--SWINE HEALTH PROTECTION
Sec. 3802. Definitions
For purposes of this chapter--
(1) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) the term ``garbage'' means all waste material derived in
whole or in part from the meat of any animal (including fish and
poultry) or other animal material, and other refuse of any character
whatsoever that has been associated with any such material,
resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of
food, except that such term shall not include waste from ordinary
household operations which is fed directly to swine on the same
premises where such household is located;
(3) the term ``person'' means any individual, corporation,
company, association, firm, partnership, society, or joint stock
company or other legal entity; and
(4) the term ``State'' means the fifty States, the District of
Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United
States, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, and the territories and possessions of the United States.
(Pub. L. 96-468, Sec. 3, Oct 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2229; Pub. L. 96-592,
title V, Sec. 511, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3451.)
Amendments
1980--Par. (4). Pub. L. 96-592 added par. (4).
