(a) As used in this chapter, the term "commission" means the Georgia Seed Development Commission.

(b) There is created a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality and public corporation of this state, to be known as the Georgia Seed Development Commission. It shall have perpetual existence. In such name, it may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and complain and defend in all courts.

(c) The commission is assigned to the Department of Agriculture for administrative purposes only, as prescribed in Code Section 50-4-3.