As used in this article 1, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1) Agriculture means the science and art of production of plants and animals useful to humans, including, to a variable extent, the preparation of these products for human use and their disposal by marketing or otherwise, and includes horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, and all forms of farm products and farm production.
2. (1.5) Repealed.
3. (2) Commission means the state agricultural commission.
4. (3) Commissioner means the commissioner of agriculture.
5. (4) Department means the department of agriculture.
6. (5) Division means a primary subdivision of the department whose administrative head is directly responsible to the head of the department.
7. (6) Livestock means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, mules, poultry, horses, alternative livestock, as defined in section 35-41.5-102 (1), and such domesticated animals as fox, mink, marten, chinchilla, beaver, and rabbits, and all other animals raised or kept for profit.
8. (7) Section means a subdivision of a division whose administrative head is directly responsible to the head of the division.

Source: L. 49: p. 185, § 2. CSA: C. 5, § 13(4). CRS 53: § 6-1-2. C.R.S. 1963: § 6-1-2. L. 94: (1.5) added and (6) amended, p. 1697, § 3, effective July 1. L. 99: (1.5) amended, p. 533, § 2, effective May 3. L. 2025: IP and (1) amended, (HB 25-1084), ch. 24, p. 90, § 1, effective August 6.

Editor's note: Subsection (1.5)(b) provided for the repeal of subsection (1.5), effective July 1, 2009. (See L. 99, p. 533.)