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

1. (1) Candling means examining the interior of an egg by use of transmitted light sufficient to view the interior of the egg.
2. (2) Commission means the state agricultural commission.
3. (3) Commissioner means the commissioner of agriculture.
4. (4) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2009, (SB 09-127), ch. 63, p. 224, § 7, effective July 1, 2009.)
5. (5) Consumer means any person who buys eggs for household consumption and not for resale.
6. (6) Dealer means any person who is engaged in selling poultry eggs or other eggs.
7. (7) Department means the department of agriculture.
8. (8) Edible eggs means eggs which are free from mold, blood ring, blood spot, bloody whites, filth, stuck yolk, black rot, white rot, mixed rot, or any other inedible quality as defined by the United States department of agriculture.
9. (9) (Deleted by amendment, L. 95, p. 699, § 15, effective May 23, 1995.)
10. (10) and (11) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2009, (SB 09-127), ch. 63, p. 224, § 7, effective July 1, 2009.)
11. (12) Repealed.
12. (13) Manufacturer means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or preparing any product intended for sale for human consumption in which eggs in any form or part are used.
13. (13.5) Other eggs means the eggs with a shell of any avian species, as designated by the commissioner by rule, other than the domesticated chicken.
14. (14) Person means a person, partnership, association, or corporation.
15. (15) Poultry eggs, shell eggs, or eggs means shell eggs of the domesticated chicken.
16. (16) Producer means any person engaged in producing poultry eggs or other eggs in this state.
17. (17) Restaurant means any person engaged in the business of catering or furnishing meals to the public.
18. (18) and (19) Repealed.
19. (20) Where applicable, the singular includes the plural; the plural, the singular; and the masculine, the feminine.

Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 213, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 7-9-1. L. 73: p. 214, § 1. L. 95: (6), (8), (9), and (12) amended, p. 699, § 15, effective May 23. L. 2009: (1), (4), (6), (10), and (11) amended and (12), (18), and (19) repealed, (SB 09-127), ch. 63, pp. 224, 223, §§ 7, 4, effective July 1. L. 2020: IP, (6), and (16) amended and (13.5) added, (HB 20-1211), ch. 159, p. 712, § 3, effective June 29; IP amended, (HB 20-1343), ch. 217, p. 1077, § 3, effective September 14.

Editor's note: Subsection IP(1) was amended in HB 20-1211. Those amendments were superseded by the amendment to subsection IP(1) in HB 20-1343.