Haw. Rev. Stat. § 237-5
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"Producer" defined.
Official statutory text
"Producer" means any person engaged in the business of raising and producing agricultural products in their natural state, or in producing natural resource products, or engaged in the business of fishing or aquaculture, for sale, or for shipment or transportation out of the State, of the agricultural or aquaculture products in their natural or processed state, or butchered and dressed, or the natural resource products, or fish.
As used in this section "agricultural products" include floricultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, nut, coffee, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, animal, and any other farm, agronomic, or plantation products. [L 1935, c 141, pt of §1; RL 1945, §5447; RL 1955, §117-6; am L 1957, c 34, §11(b); HRS §237-5; am L 1982, c 253, §1; am L 1984, c 73, §3]
As used in this section "agricultural products" include floricultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, nut, coffee, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, animal, and any other farm, agronomic, or plantation products. [L 1935, c 141, pt of §1; RL 1945, §5447; RL 1955, §117-6; am L 1957, c 34, §11(b); HRS §237-5; am L 1982, c 253, §1; am L 1984, c 73, §3]
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