Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

“Association” means an association of produce dealers which is organized to carry out the responsibilities of produce dealers which are imposed by this chapter.

“City” includes city and county.

“Commissioner,” with respect to any matter which relates to a particular market, means the deputy labor commissioner who is in charge of the office of the Labor Commissioner which is located nearest to that market.

“Director” means the Director of Industrial Relations.

“Farm product” means any fruit, nut, vegetable, berry, or aquacultural product.

“Hauler” means any trucker or carrier.

“Market” means the places of business, collectively, of produce dealers that operate in a city, or the vicinity of a city, and that deal in any farm product which is intended, in whole or in part, for ultimate sale for consumption in a fresh state within the city and the vicinity of the city. This chapter applies only to any market in which five or more produce dealers operate in the Counties of Alameda, San Francisco, and San Mateo and the provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 56801) of this division shall not be applicable to any such market.

“Produce dealer” includes “commission merchant,” as defined in Section 56105, and “dealer,” as defined in Section 56107. It does not, however, include a “broker,” as defined in Section 56103, nor “processor,” as defined in Section 55407.

“Producer” means any person who commercially grows and markets farm products.

“Registered unloader” means a person who unloads any farm product in a market. It does not, however, include any of the following:

“Union” means the labor union which has been recognized by the National Labor Relations Board, or other governmental agency which has jurisdiction, as the bargaining agency for employees who are employed in a market.