Person includes any individual, partnership, association or corporation, but does not include any common carrier when engaged in the business of transporting bees, hives, appliances, bee cages or other commodities which are the subject of this chapter, in the regular course of business. [Amended by 1961 c.177 ??1; 1963 c.65 ??1; 1989 c.738 ??5; 1993 c.350 ??1]