Section 9-13-80

Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(1) PERSON. Such term includes any individual, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, receiver, trustee or any other group or combination acting as a unit.

(2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Revenue of the State of Alabama.

(3) TAXPAYER. Any person liable for taxes under this article.

(4) PRODUCER. Any person engaging or continuing to engage in this state in the business of severing timber or any other forest products from the soil, whether as owner, lessee, concessionaire or contractor. Such definition shall also include any person who assembles or causes to be assembled any forest product for shipment out of the State of Alabama in an unmanufactured condition.

(5) FOREST PRODUCTS. Logs, timber, pulpwood, chemical wood, bolts, crossties and switch ties, mine ties, coal mine props, ore mine props, poles, piles, turpentine (crude gum) and stumpwood (tarwood).

(6) SEVER. To fell, cut or otherwise separate from the soil; provided, that for the purpose of this article, any person who is the owner or lessee of timber and is also the processor thereof or a manufacturer of products derived therefrom shall be deemed the person engaged in severing such timber from the soil, notwithstanding the fact that the severance is made by an independent contractor or otherwise.

(7) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Revenue of the State of Alabama.

(8) MANUFACTURER. As applied to forest products suitable for manufacture into lumber, the person who operates the sawmill or plant in which such products are so manufactured into lumber; as applied to pulpwood, chemical wood and bolts, the person who operates the paper mill, chemical plant or other plant in which such forest products are processed; as applied to crossties, switch ties, mine ties, props, poles and piles, the person who purchases from the producer; as applied to turpentine, the person who processes or cooks the crude gum; as applied to stumpwood, the person who operates the plant or retort in which such product is processed.

(9) CONCENTRATION YARD. A place where lumber is brought or received within the State of Alabama in a green or rough form or condition for manufacturing or for processing or for resale.

(Acts 1945, No. 169, p. 285, §1; Acts 1953, No. 695, p. 948, §1; Acts 1955, No. 530, p. 1177, § 1.)