CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 58.1-1601)

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly shows otherwise:

   “Fixed place of business” means a mill, plant, yard, or other
   location at which occurs a regular and continuous course of dealing. The use
   of portable machinery or equipment alone at the place of severance of forest
   products does not constitute a fixed place of business.
            

      "F.  means loaded on a railroad car, loaded on a barge or boat, or delivered
      to place of use by truck.

   “Forest product” means wood, derived from trees severed in
   Virginia for commercial purposes, of any type or form, including but not
   limited to logs, timber, pulpwood, excelsior wood, chemical wood, woodchips,
   biomass chips, fuel chips, mulch, bolts, billets, crossties, switch ties,
   poles, piles, fuel wood, posts, all cooperage products, tanbark, mine ties,
   mine props, and all other types of forest products used in
   mines.”Manufacturer” means any person that for commercial purposes
   at a fixed place of business (i) processes forest products into various sizes
   and forms, including chips; (ii) processes forest products into other
   products; (iii) uses or consumes forest products; or (iv) stores forest
   products for sale or shipment out of state.”Shipper” means any
   person in this Commonwealth that sells or ships outside the Commonwealth by
   railroad, truck, barge, boat, or any other means of transportation any forest
   product in an unmanufactured condition, whether as owner, lessee, woodyard
   operator, agent, or contractor.”Severer” means any person in this
   Commonwealth that fells, cuts, or otherwise separates timber or any other such
   forest product from the soil.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 58-838.1; 1970, c. 770; 1984, c. 675; 2015, c. 170.