---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 62"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "62"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/62"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Cotton Standards"
---

# §62. Definitions


Wherever used in this chapter, (a) the word “[person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1)” imports the plural or the singular, as the case demands, and includes an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or two or more [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) having a joint or common interest; (b) the word “commerce” means commerce between any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) or the District of Columbia and any place outside thereof, or between points within the same [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) or the District of Columbia but through any place outside thereof, or within the District of Columbia; and (c) the word “cotton” means cotton of any variety produced within the continental United States, including linters.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 288, § 11, 42 Stat. 1519.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is composed of the first sentence of section 11 of act Mar. 4, 1923. The remainder of section 11 is contained in section 63 of this title.