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<section article="gag" article_name="Agriculture" number="4-301" title_number="4" title_name="Regulation of Livestock, Poultry Products, and Eggs" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Maryland Egg Law">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Consumer” means any person who purchases or otherwise acquires shell eggs for household consumption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Distributor” means any person who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Sells, offers, or exposes for sale shell eggs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Purchases shell eggs for other than household consumption; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Distributes eggs to a retail outlet or food service facility owned by that person.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Distributor” does not include any person who purchases shell eggs either exclusively as a retailer or exclusively for use in a food service facility or exclusively both as a retailer and as a food service facility.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Food service facility” means any person who operates a facility where eggs are used in the preparation of food and who does not distribute eggs to a food service facility owned by that person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Packer” means any person who places shell eggs in the original case, carton, or container that is used to hold eggs for distribution or sale to a consumer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Poultry” means any living domesticated bird.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Retailer” means any person who sells shell eggs to a consumer and who</text>
    <text>does not distribute eggs to a retail outlet owned by that person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Shell eggs” means raw or treated poultry eggs that are still in the shell and intended for human consumption.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Treated egg” means a poultry egg that has been subjected to a process that alters the egg while still in the shell.</text>
  </level>
</section>
