CHAPTER 88

An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 8.1 a chapter
numbered 28.1 containing sections numbered $8.1-646.1 through
8.1-646.8, relating to nurseries, nurserymen, horticulture and flori-
culture; who shall be deemed farmers.

[S 102]

Approved February 28, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding in Chapter 23.1 of
Title 3.1 thereof containing sections numbered 3.1-646.1 through 3.1-646.3
as follows:

§ 3.1-646.1. Definitions.—For the purpose of this chapter:

(1) “Nursery” means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery
stock is being propagated or grown for sale or distribution, including any
grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is being fumigated,
treated, packed or stored, or otherwise prepared or offered for sale or
movement to other localities. ,

(2) “Nurseryman” means any person engaged in the production of
nursery stock for sale or distribution.

(3) “Horticulture and floriculture.”” Whenever the terms “agricul-
ture, agricultural purposes, agricultural uses” or words of similar import
are used in any of the statutes of the State of Virginia, such terms shall
include horticulture and floriculture, horticultural purposes and floricpl-
tural purposes, horticultural uses and floricultural uses, and words of
similar import applicable to agriculture shall likewise be applicable to
horticulture and floriculture.

§ 3.1-646.2. Nurseryman producing nursery stock and plants for
sale is a farmer.—A nurseryman producing nursery stock and plants for
sale shall be classified and placed in the same category as any other farmer
or person producing agricultural products for market in the interpretation
and construction of statues and laws of the State of Virginia.