---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 957"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "957"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/957"
units:
  - "Chapter 32 — Peanut Statistics"
---

# §957. Definitions


When used in this chapter—

- (1) The term “person” includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations;
- (2) The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture.

## Source credit

(June 24, 1936, ch. 745, § 7, 49 Stat. 1899.)