In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: 1. "Animal unit" means a cow, a bull, or a steer, or five sheep over six months of age on the first day of May of the year in which the age is being determined. Two horses are equivalent to three animal units. Animals not more than six months old on the first day of May of the year in which the age is being determined, and which are the natural increase of the permitted livestock, may not be counted. 2. "Association" means a corporate or cooperative grazing association. 3. "Cooperative grazing association" means a corporate or cooperative association mutually operated for the purpose of aiding in the conservation, restoration, improvement, development, and utilization of natural forage resources within any county or counties where a grazing area has been acquired for joint use by its members and for aiding in the restoration, conservation, improvement, development, and utilization of lands. 4. "Cooperative grazing district" means and includes a grazing area controlled by a grazing association and utilized by its members for grazing purposes under such definite restrictions, regulations, and limitations by the association as contribute to the conservation, restoration, improvement, and development of the forage resources of such land. 5. "District" means a corporate or cooperative grazing district. 6. "Grazing area" means any area of land situated in any one or more counties in this state, which has been or may be acquired by purchase, lease, or otherwise by an association for grazing purposes or for the raising of forage crops. 7. "Subdivision" means any portion or block of land situated within the outside boundaries of a district.
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