---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2612"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2612"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2612"
units:
  - "Chapter 58 — Potato Research and Promotion"
---

# §2612. Definitions


As used in this chapter:

- (a) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- (b) The term “person” means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity.
- (c) The term “potatoes” means all varieties of Irish potatoes grown by [producers](#e) in the 50 [States](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) of the United States, and grown in foreign countries and imported into the United States.
- (d) The term “handler” means any [person](#b) (except a common or contract carrier of [potatoes](#c) owned by another [person](#b)) who handles [potatoes](#c) in a manner specified in a plan issued pursuant to this chapter or in the rules and regulations issued thereunder.
- (e) The term “producer” means any [person](#b) engaged in the growing of five or more acres of [potatoes](#c).
- (f) The term “promotion” means any action taken by the National Potato Promotion Board, pursuant to this chapter, to present a favorable image for [potatoes](#c) to the public with the express intent of improving their competitive positions and stimulating sales of [potatoes](#c) and shall include, but shall not be limited to, paid advertising.
- (g) The term “importer” means any [person](#b) who imports tablestock, frozen, or processed [potatoes](#c) for ultimate consumption by humans or seed [potatoes](#c) into the United States.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–670, title III, § 303, Jan. 11, 1971, 84 Stat. 2041; Pub. L. 101–624, title XIX, § 1937, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3866.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1990—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101–624, § 1937(1), substituted “50” for “forty-eight contiguous” and inserted before the period at the end “, and grown in foreign countries and imported into the United States”.

Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 101–624, § 1937(2), added subsec. (g).