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9-1-2. Definitions.

As used in this title:

(1) "Agricultural industry or business" means an industry or business involving agricultural products in manufacturing, packaging, treatment, sales, intensive feeding, or storage, including but not limited to commercial greenhouses, feed yards, fur farms, food packaging or processing plants; commercial poultry or egg production, and similar uses. Agricultural industry or business shall not include the raising or sale of unprocessed crops, including hay.

(2) "Health department" means the Tooele County Health Department.

(3) "Business, trade, profession or calling" means and includes all activities engaged in within the unincorporated limits of Tooele County carried on for the purpose of gain or economic profit, except that the acts of employees rendering service to employers shall not be included in the term business unless otherwise specified.

(4) "Clerk" means the Tooele County Clerk.

(5) "Engaging in business" means the sale of tangible personal property at retail or wholesale, the manufacturing of goods or property, and the rendering of personal services for others for consideration by persons engaged in any profession, trade, craft, business, occupation or other calling except the rendering of personal services by an employee to an employer under any contract of personal employment. Engaging in business also includes agricultural industries, but not farming or ranching.

(6) "Farming" means tilling soil, raising and selling unprocessed crops, including hay, horticulture and gardening, breeding, grazing and keeping or raising domestic animals and fowl, but shall not include any agricultural industry or business.

(7) "Place of business" means a location maintained or operated by a person within the unincorporated limits of the county from which a business activity is conducted or transacted. (Ord. 95-26, 12/05/95)

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