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Food and Agricultural Code - FAC

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• § 61341 — The director may adopt regulations for the proper administration and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
• § 61342 — The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed as being complementary of, and supplemental to, the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) of this part.
• § 61343 — Any person and subject matter to which this chapter is applicable is not subject to the provisions of the Unfair Practices Act, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 17000), Part 2, Division 7 of the Bus
• § 61344 — This chapter shall be liberally construed.
• § 61345 — (a) Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801), Chapter 2.
• § 61381 — Any false or misleading advertising, as defined in Sections 32914 and 36062 of this code, and Sections 17500, 17501, and 17502 of the Business and Professions Code, of milk, cream, or any dairy produc
• § 61382 — Discrimination in price between distributors or between wholesale customers, or between consumers, that purchase milk, cream, or any dairy product of like grade and quality under like conditions of se
• § 61383 — The sale or offer to sell or giving of any article in any transaction which involves the sale or disposal of milk, cream, or any dairy product, for less than the cost of the article, as “cost” is defi
• § 61384 — (a) The sale by any retailer, wholesale customer, manufacturer, or distributor, including any producer-distributor or nonprofit cooperative association acting as a distributor, of milk, cream, or any
• § 61385 — Any false statement or representation which is knowingly made, by any wholesale customer or consumer, or anyone that is acting on the behalf of either, to any distributor or manufacturer, or any repre
• § 61391 — Solicitation by, or collusion or joint participation between or among, any manufacturer, distributor, producer, wholesale customer, consumer, or any representative of any of them, to commit any of the
• § 61400 — It is recognized by the Legislature that unfair and disruptive practices have developed concerning the purchasing of manufacturing milk, as defined in Section 32509, including the failure to pay, or t
• § 61404 — The bond provided for in this article is required for each manufacturing milk handler.
• § 61405 — (a) Every manufacturing milk handler that operates only one plant within the state, before purchasing any manufacturing milk from a producer, shall execute and deliver to the secretary a surety bond,
• § 61405.1 — If any handler increases his or her purchases of manufacturing milk during the license year so that the purchases exceed the amount for which the handler is bonded, the handler shall immediately post
• § 61406 — The bond required by Section 61405 shall be in a form approved by the director, and shall be conditioned upon the payment in the manner that is required by the terms of purchase between the manufactur
• § 61407 — If a handler fails to pay any producer or producers in the manner that is required by this chapter, the director shall proceed forthwith to ascertain the names and addresses of all the producers that
• § 61407.1 — (a) After determining the claims of the producers pursuant to Section 61407, the director shall bring an action on the bond on behalf of the producers.
• § 61407.2 — If the recovery upon the bond is not sufficient to pay all of the claims as finally determined and adjudged by the court, the amount recovered shall be divided pro rata among the producer-creditors.
• § 61407.3 — Payments by a handler to a producer, for the purposes of any action on a handler’s bond for any year, shall be credited first to interest and then to principal due, owed, and unpaid.
• § 61407.4 — (a) The director may bring an action against a surety bond company if the company fails to do any of the following: (1) Acknowledge promptly and act reasonably upon receiving a bond demand from the di
• § 61408 — If a manufacturing milk handler fails to pay any producer in the manner that is required by this chapter, the director may require the filing of a new or additional bond in the amount determined by th
• § 61409 — The failure of any manufacturing milk handler that purchases manufacturing milk from producers to execute and deliver the bond as provided and required in this article is a violation of this chapter.
• § 61410 — The failure of any manufacturing milk handler that purchases manufacturing milk from producers to execute and deliver the bond as provided and required in this article shall constitute grounds for sus
• § 61411 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 61411.
• § 61411.1 — The production of manufacturing milk in excess of amounts to be purchased under contracts executed pursuant to Section 61411 shall be voluntary on the part of the producer and shall not be a condition
• § 61411.2 — Section 61411 does not apply to the purchase of manufacturing milk which is necessary to meet an unanticipated increase in demand or an unanticipated shortage in the supply of a handler if the quantit
• § 61411.3 — Section 61411 does not apply to manufacturing milk purchased under cash-on-delivery terms.
• § 61411.4 — Any contract between a producer and a handler shall be voidable by the producer for a 45-day period following the occurrence of either of the following: (a) The handler has failed to pay the producer
• § 61411.5 — If a notice has been issued by the director that the future deliveries to the handler shall not be covered under the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund created pursuant to Chapter 2.
• § 61412 — (a) (1) Every milk handler who receives manufacturing milk subject to this article shall deduct as an assessment from payments made to producers for manufacturing milk the sum of one and two-tenths ce
• § 61413 — The director may fix the rates of assessments or fees required by Section 61412 at lesser amounts, and may adjust the rates of assessments or fees from time to time, whenever he or she finds that the
• § 61414 — (a) Any assessment or fee or either of them payable pursuant to any provision of this article is a debt of the person by whom the assessment or fee or either of them is payable and shall be due and pa
• § 61415 — The failure of any handler to pay for manufacturing milk delivered to the handler at the time and in the manner specified in the contract with the producer is an unlawful trade practice.
• § 61415.1 — (a) Handlers shall pay producers either by check or cash.
• § 61415.2 — (a) If a handler does not pay for manufacturing milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in the contract, the handler shall pay the producer interest on the unpaid amount f
• § 61415.3 — If a handler fails to pay for manufacturing milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in this chapter, the director may assess a penalty for each payment date that the produ
• § 61416 — The director may revoke or suspend any license of a handler if the director finds as a result of a noticed hearing that the handler has not paid for any manufacturing milk delivered to him or her at t
• § 61416.1 — The director, pursuant to the procedure in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, may also refuse to grant or renew any license to a handl
• § 61417 — In lieu of revoking or suspending a handler’s license under Section 61416, the director may impose any other conditional and probationary orders, pursuant to a noticed hearing, that may be proper for
• § 61418 — If the respondent does not comply with any conditional or probationary orders, the director may suspend or revoke the license in accordance with the procedure provided in Chapter 5 (commencing with Se
• § 61419 — (a) Whenever the director is satisfied, either by investigation or after a hearing, that a handler is unable to pay for any manufacturing milk purchased from any producer, and is further satisfied tha
• § 61441 — Every distributor, person who sells at wholesale, or manufacturer of milk, cream, or any dairy product shall maintain and keep, for a period of three years from their initial recordation, or for a per
• § 61442 — The director shall have access to, and may enter at all reasonable hours, any place where any dairy product is being processed, bottled, stored, kept, or sold, or where the books, papers, records, or
• § 61442.1 — Within 60 days of the effective date of this section, each manufacturing milk handler shall provide the director with a list of the name, address, and date of every current contract between the handle
• § 61443 — Any record or report which is made to the director pursuant to this article, or any contract required to be filed pursuant to this chapter, is confidential and shall not be divulged, except if necessa
• § 61471 — The director may, upon his or her own motion or upon the receipt of any verified complaint, investigate any transaction that involves the violation of any provision of this chapter by any person.
• § 61472 — If a hearing is called by the director, the director shall cause a copy of the complaint, together with a notice of time and place of hearing of the complaint, to be served personally or by mail upon
• § 61473 — The hearing shall be held in the city or place in which is situated the business location of the person that is complained of, or in which the transaction complained of is said to have occurred.
• § 61474 — The person complained of shall, at least three days prior to the date fixed for the hearing, serve upon the complaining party and file with the director a verified answer to all the allegations which
• § 61475 — At the time and place which is appointed for such hearing the director shall hear the parties to such complaint, and shall enter in the office of the director at Sacramento a decision dismissing such
• § 61476 — The director may do any of the following: (a) Administer oaths and take testimony thereunder.
• § 61477 — Any party that disobeys any order or subpoena of the director is guilty of contempt and shall be certified to the superior court of the state, in and for the county wherein such contempt occurs, for p
• § 61478 — Any act of the director pursuant to any provision of this chapter may be reviewed by any court of competent jurisdiction.
• § 61490 — For the purposes of this article, each subsidiary manufacturing milk plant, or branch manufacturing milk plant, whether under one ownership or not, shall be considered as an individual manufacturing m
• § 61491 — “Manufacturing milk handler” means any person defined as a manufacturing milk handler pursuant to Section 61402.
• § 61492 — It is unlawful for a manufacturing milk handler who is not licensed under Article 12 (commencing with Section 62141) of Chapter 2 to handle manufacturing milk without first obtaining a manufacturing m
• § 61493 — Application for the license provided by this article shall be made on forms prescribed by the director, accompanied by an application fee as prescribed in Section 61494, and state the name and address
• § 61494 — One-half of the valid license renewals shall be issued for a period of 24 months beginning January 1, 1988.
• § 6151 — Caprifigs, unless properly treated, contribute to, and are responsible for, the transmission of endosepsis and other plant diseases by the blastophaga which the figs contain.
• § 6152 — Every person who owns, raises, uses, packs, ships, or delivers for shipment or sells any caprifigs of the mamme crop for use within the county, shall treat such figs by a method which is approved by t
• § 6153 — If any caprifigs of the mamme crop are to be shipped or used outside the county, the person that owns, raises, uses, packs, ships or delivers them for shipment shall notify the commissioner of the cou
• § 61531 — All money received by the director pursuant to this chapter shall be paid monthly into the State Treasury to the credit of the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.
• § 6154 — After the notice, the commissioner shall require the consignee to properly treat the figs for the prevention or elimination of endosepsis before using them.
• § 6155 — It is unlawful for any person to violate Section 6152, 6153, or 6154.
• § 6156 — It is unlawful for any person to pack, ship, deliver for shipment, or sell in any container any caprifigs of the profichi crop which violate any of the following: (a) Do not contain matured pollen.
• § 6157 — It is unlawful for any person to pack, ship, deliver for shipment or sell in any container any caprifigs of the mamme crop, which contain more than 25 percent of spent figs, or more than 10 percent of
• § 61571 — The violation of any provisions of this chapter is a misdemeanor which is punishable by a fine not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonme
• § 61572 — Any person who violates this chapter, or any regulations adopted under this chapter, is liable civilly in an amount not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,
• § 61573 — The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation or the threatened violation of any provision of this chapter or of any order which is made pursuant to this chapter in the superior court in th
• § 6171 — Caprifig trees, unless properly controlled and regulated under supervision, constitute a menace because they are a source of infection and pests.
• § 6172 — Except as otherwise provided by Section 6173, in the interest of the public welfare and general prosperity of the state and to provide for the control, eradication, elimination, and prevention of endo
• § 6173 — Every commercial grower of calimyrna or other Smyrna-type fig may maintain at least one caprifig tree in connection with his planting.
• § 6174 — The commissioner shall notify the owner of any fig tree which is a public nuisance under Section 6172 to graft or destroy it within a time which is specified in the notice.
• § 6175 — If the owner does not destroy or graft the fig tree within the time which is specified in the notice, the commissioner shall cause the grafting or destruction of the tree, at the expense of the owner,
• § 6176 — A calimyrna grower, regardless of the size of his holdings, shall follow the standard procedures for cleanup of caprifig trees by picking the mamme caprifigs before the wasps begin to issue.
• § 6177 — The presence of both mamme and set profichi figs in the caprifig trees at the same time is a public nuisance.
• § 61801 — The production of market milk is hereby declared to be a business affected with a public interest.
• § 61802 — The Legislature hereby declares all of the following: (a) Market milk is a necessary article of food for human consumption.
• § 61803 — It is recognized by the Legislature that conditions within the milk industry of this state are such that it is necessary to establish marketing areas wherein different prices and regulations are neces
• § 61804 — The foregoing statements in this article of facts, policy, and application of this chapter are hereby declared a matter of legislative determination.
• § 61805 — The purposes of this chapter are to do all of the following: (a) Provide funds for administration and enforcement of this chapter, by assessments to be paid by producers and handlers of market milk in
• § 61806 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the powers conferred in this chapter shall be liberally construed.
• § 61807 — Nothing in this chapter permits or authorizes the development of conditions of monopoly in the production of market milk.
• § 61808 — The Legislature hereby declares that this chapter is intended to formulate a comprehensive scheme for the regulation of marketing milk.
• § 61809 — If any article, section, subdivision, sentence, clause, or phrase of any provision of this chapter is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision does not affect the validity of the rema
• § 61810 — Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 61301), Chapter 2.
• § 61811 — No provision of this chapter, or of any stabilization and marketing plan formulated by the director pursuant to this chapter, is any limitation upon the right of any handler or producer-handler includ
• § 61812 — Neither the repeal of former Chapter 2 of this part, the reenactment of this chapter nor the amendment of any provision of this chapter shall have the effect of terminating or invalidating any stabili
• § 61821 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 61822 — “Board” means any advisory board created as authorized in this chapter.
• § 61823 — “Bulk market milk” means market milk which has not been pasteurized or packaged in bottles, cartons, dispenser cans, or other consumer packages, and is handled or delivered, in bulk, in tanks, cans, o
• § 61824 — “Consumer” means any person that purchases market milk, or any dairy product for consumption.
• § 61825 — “Dairy product” or “milk product” includes any product manufactured from milk or any derivative or product of milk.
• § 61826 — “Handler” means any person who, as owner, agent, broker, or intermediary, either directly or indirectly, receives, purchases, or otherwise acquires ownership, possession, or control of market milk in
• § 61827 — “Market cream” means cream, as defined in this code, and any combination of cream and milk, or any fluid product of milk or cream sold under any trade name whatsoever, which complies with all of the f
• § 61828 — “Market milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32510 and has the same meaning as “restricted use market milk” as defined in Section 32516.
• § 61829 — “Market skim milk” means skim milk, as defined in this code, that is derived from market milk and conforms to the health and sanitary regulations of the place where sold or disposed of for human consu
• § 61830 — “Marketing area” is any area within this state declared to be such in the manner that is prescribed in this chapter.
• § 61831 — “Milk” has the meaning of that term as defined in Section 32511.
• § 61831.5 — “Milk used for manufacturing purposes” means all milk used for those products defined in Part 3 (commencing with Section 36601) of Division 15.
• § 61832 — “Milk plant” means any place, structure, or building where a handler receives market milk.
• § 61833 — “Packaged market milk” or “packaged market cream” means market milk or market cream respectively, which is packaged in cartons, bottles, dispenser cans, or other consumer packages, for sale to wholesa
• § 61834 — “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, nonprofit cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, o
• § 61835 — “Processing” means receiving, pasteurizing, and packaging market milk.
• § 61836 — “Producer” means any person that produces market milk from five or more cows in conformity with the applicable health regulations of the place in which it is sold, and whose bulk market milk is receiv
• § 61837 — “Producer-handler” means any person that is both a producer and a handler of market milk.
• § 61838 — “Stabilization and marketing plan” means any plan formulated and made effective by the director within the legislative standards provided by this chapter.
• § 61839 — “Wholesale customer” means any person except a distributor that buys packaged milk, cream, or any dairy product for resale to consumers or to other wholesale customers.
• § 61871 — For the purposes of this chapter, a nonprofit cooperative association organized and existing under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 54001) of Division 20, that acts for producers, including members
• § 61872 — For the purposes of this chapter, a nonprofit cooperative association organized and existing under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 54001) of Division 20, that acts for producers, including members
• § 61873 — A nonprofit cooperative association accounts to producers on a patronage basis when it accounts to each producer for his share of the net proceeds derived from the marketing operations of the associat
• § 61891 — The director shall enforce the provisions of this chapter and of any stabilization and marketing plan initiated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
• § 61892 — The director shall have and may exercise any or all the powers conferred by the Government Code upon the head of a department of the state with respect to hearings and investigations under this chapte
• § 61893 — The director is the instrumentality of this state for the purpose of administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and to execute the legislative intent expressed in this chapter, and is
• § 61894 — For the purposes of enforcing this chapter, the director may investigate any and all transactions, between producers and handlers, between nonprofit cooperative associations and producers, among handl
• § 61895 — The director may require the registration of producers.
• § 61896 — The director may formulate any stabilization and marketing plan as prescribed in this chapter and declare it effective after public hearing and reasonable notice by mail or otherwise to all producers,
• § 61897 — A full and accurate record of business or acts performed, or of testimony taken, by the director pursuant to this chapter shall be kept and placed on file in the office of the director.
• § 61898 — In addition to the compilation of information which pertains to market milk from the reports required by this chapter, the director shall collect, assemble, compile, and distribute statistical data re
• § 61899 — Any order of the director made pursuant to this chapter which substantially affects the rights of any interested party may be reviewed by any court of competent jurisdiction.
• § 61900 — The director may confer, enter into agreements, or otherwise arrange with the constituted authorities of this state, other states, or agencies of the United States with respect to plans which relate t
• § 61901 — All money received by the director pursuant to this chapter shall be paid monthly into the State Treasury to the credit of the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.
• § 61902 — If the director determines that it is probable that one or more factors or conditions which affect prices of market milk have changed on a relatively uniform basis throughout two or more marketing are
• § 61903 — Any person who has testified under oath at a public hearing held by the director pursuant to this chapter may be granted, upon request prior to the close of the hearing, a period of time not to exceed
• § 61904 — Any provisions of a stabilization and marketing plan formulated, established, or rejected by the director pursuant to this chapter, shall be accompanied by written statements, which shall be made avai
• § 61931 — Market milk may be classified for the purposes of this chapter as provided in this article.
• § 61932 — Class 1 comprises: (a) Any market milk, market skim milk, half-and-half, or concentrated milk that is supplied to consumers in the fluid state, with the exception of the following: (1) (A) Any UHT mar
• § 61933 — Class 2 comprises any market milk, market skim milk, or market cream used in the manufacture of market cream, homogenized market cream, sour cream, sour cream dressing, sour half-and-half or light sou
• § 61934 — Class 3 comprises all market milk, market skim milk, or market cream used in the manufacture of frozen dairy products.
• § 61935 — (a) Class 4a comprises all market milk, market skim milk, or market cream used in the manufacture of butter, dried milk, dried skim milk, nonfat dry milk solids, defatted milk solids, dried buttermilk
• § 61936 — If the director establishes a temporary definition and standards for any new milk product pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 36631), Chapter 1, Part 3 of Division 15, he shall assign such
• § 61937 — Market milk, market skim milk, or market cream, utilized in bulk by handlers as condensed milk, condensed skim milk, evaporated skim milk, evaporated cream or clotted cream, or evaporated milk, shall
• § 61961 — The director shall designate marketing areas which he deems necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, and in which he finds the conditions affecting the production, handling,
• § 61962 — The director may establish additional areas, or modify areas previously established, if he deems the establishment or modification of such areas necessary or advisble to effectuate the purposes of thi
• § 61963 — If the director finds, after a public hearing in and for each particular marketing area under consideration for consolidation, that conditions of production and handling are reasonably uniform in two
• § 61991 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 61992, the director shall, prior to the formulation of a stabilization and marketing plan for market milk for any marketing area, conduct a public hearing in th
• § 61992 — A hearing need not, however, be held if a petition requesting a stabilization and marketing plan is presented to the director by the producers whose major interest in the market milk business is in th
• § 61993 — If the director finds that a stablization and marketing plan is necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, he shall formulate a stabilization and marketing plan for market milk for such are
• § 61994 — The notice of the hearing may be effected by mail, or by publication pursuant to Section 6062 of the Government Code in the area which is designated.
• § 61995 — At the hearing, interested parties shall be heard and records kept of the proceedings of such hearing for determination by the director whether the plan proposed will accomplish the purposes of this c
• § 61996 — If, after the public hearing, the director determines that the proposed plan will tend to accomplish the purposes of this chapter within the standards which are prescribed in it, he or she shall issue
• § 61997 — A handler that is subject to the provisions of any stabilization and marketing plan shall not purchase milk from any producer that does not comply with this chapter and such plan.
• § 61998 — No stabilization or marketing plan shall contain provisions the purposes of which are to establish limitations upon the production of market milk.
• § 6200 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) California is the leading producer of wine in the United States, accounting for 72 percent of all wine, foreign and domestic, consumed in t
• § 6200.5 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Winegrape Pest and Disease Control District Law.
• § 6201 — It is the purpose of this chapter to make available a procedure for the organization, operation, government, and dissolution of districts to respond to, manage, and control the effects of the spread o
• § 6202 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 62031 — The director may amend or terminate any stabilization and marketing plan, after notice and public hearing as prescribed in Article 7 (commencing with Section 61991), if he or she finds that the plan i
• § 62032 — A hearing on the amendment or termination of a stabilization and marketing plan may be held upon the motion of the director and shall be held upon receipt of a petition which is signed by producers, o
• § 62061 — Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions for prohibiting producers and handlers from engaging in the unlawful trade practices applicable to them that are set forth in Article 10
• § 62062 — Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions whereby the director establishes minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers for market milk in the various classes.
• § 62062.1 — Any designation of a class 1 price by any method or formula that is used to develop class 1 prices paid to producers in the various marketing areas, shall provide, on a calendar year basis, a statewid
• § 62062.5 — The minimum prices otherwise established pursuant to this chapter shall be increased by any security charges that are imposed pursuant to Chapter 2.
• § 62063 — Subject to the provisions of Sections 62074 and 62075, each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions whereby the director shall provide methods for the establishment of minimum prices
• § 62064 — Each stabilization and marketing plan shall provide all of the following: (a) For the establishment of prices for market milk, whether or not such market milk is subsequently sold or distributed in an
• § 62065 — No amendment of this article terminates or invalidates any provision of any stabilization and marketing plan which has been established by the director prior to the effective date of such amendment.
• § 62066 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, the director, in establishing minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers, for market milk in any marketing area, may establish
• § 62067 — Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions which require handlers to report to each producer from whom market milk is secured all of the following: (a) The volume of market milk rece
• § 62068 — Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions which authorize any handler that purchases market milk under contract from any producer to pool such market milk for producer payment purpo
• § 62069 — The director may establish minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producer-handlers for milk not used by the purchasing handler as class 1 milk.
• § 62070 — Each stabilization and marketing plan may further provide for maximum charges for plant processing and transportation service on the market milk or market milk components which are transported to the
• § 62071 — Each stabilization and marketing plan may provide for minimum charges for the various services performed or rendered by a nonprofit cooperative association in respect to class 1 market milk sold or de
• § 62072 — In establishing minimum handler service charges under Section 62071, the director shall take into consideration all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the following: (a) The reasonably n
• § 62073 — If any contract between a handler and a producer for the purchase of any market milk provides that the charges for the hauling of it shall be paid, in whole or in part, by the producer, and such hauli
• § 62074 — If the director establishes a stabilization and marketing plan for market milk, the director shall establish minimum prices to be paid by handlers for market cream, market skim milk, or milk fat, or m
• § 62074.5 — A stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions necessary to encourage the availability of market milk for those usages for which class 1 and class 2 milk is mandatory.
• § 62075 — The director shall establish the minimum prices to be paid by handlers to producers for class I usage of market milk upon a milk fat, solids-not-fat or the subcomponents thereof, and fluid carrier bas
• § 62076 — In establishing prices to be paid by handlers to producers for class 2, class 3, class 4a, or class 4b market milk, the director shall take into consideration any relevant economic factors, including,
• § 62077 — A handler shall not pay any producer less than the applicable price established for the usage to which the market milk, purchased from him is applied pursuant to accounting procedures established by t
• § 62078 — All handlers who receive market milk within this state shall be obligated to pay minimum producer prices established under this chapter regardless of the area of origin of such milk, whether inside or
• § 62079 — Whenever a pooling plan is in effect as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 62700) and Chapter 3.
• § 62091 — The unlawful trade practices described in this article apply to every handler whether or not a stabilization and marketing plan is in effect in the area in which the handler is licensed or carries on
• § 62092 — The payment, allowance, or acceptance of any secret rebate, secret refund, or unearned discount by any person, whether in the form of money or otherwise, is an unlawful trade practice.
• § 62093 — The giving of any milk, cream, dairy product, service, or article of any kind, except to a bona fide charity, for the purpose of securing or retaining the market milk business of any customer is an un
• § 62094 — The payment, gift, or the offer or promise of any payment or gift, of money or other thing of value, directly or indirectly, or through any agent or other intermediary, to any person with the purpose
• § 62095 — The payment, gift, or the offer or promise of any payment or gift, of money or other thing of value by any person, directly or indirectly or through any agent or other intermediary, to any handler or
• § 621 — The Department of Agriculture Building Fund is continued in existence.
• § 6210 — Proceedings for the formation of a district within any county shall be commenced by a petition that is either of the following: (a) Signed by 50 percent or more of the growers who own 65 percent or mo
• § 6211 — The petition may be filed in sections, each of which shall comply with all the requirements for a petition, except that a section need not contain the total number of signatures required for the petit
• § 6212 — Signatures to the petition may be withdrawn at any time before it has been acted upon by filing with the clerk of the board of supervisors a declaration signed by the petitioner that states that it is
• § 62121 — The director may require that each person that submits a bid for the sale to an agency of the United States government of market milk or any milk product which utilizes class 1 market milk shall file
• § 6213 — (a) The petition shall state the name of the proposed district and shall set forth its boundaries or describe the lands to be included.
• § 6214 — (a) Upon the presentation and filing of a petition, the board of supervisors shall refer the petition to the county agricultural commissioner for the preparation of a register of owners of winegrape a
• § 62141 — The licenses provided for in this article are required for each handler.
• § 62142 — For the purposes of this article, “handler” shall include any person defined as a handler under Section 61826 or any person defined as a distributor under Section 61306 that purchases or handles marke
• § 62143 — No person who qualifies as a handler under Section 62142 shall deal in market milk without first obtaining a license from the director.
• § 62144 — Applications for the license provided by this article shall be made on forms prescribed by the director, accompanied by a fee as prescribed in Section 62145, and state the name and address of the appl
• § 62145 — One-half of the valid license renewals shall be issued for a period of 24 months beginning January 1, 1988.
• § 62146 — The director may refuse to grant or renew any license if he or she is satisfied that any applicant, or any person connected with the applicant, either directly or indirectly, has violated any of the f
• § 62147 — The director may also refuse to grant or renew any license to a handler if he is satisfied that the handler has failed to pay for any market milk delivered to him at the time and in the manner specifi
• § 62148 — The proceedings to determine whether or not the director shall refuse to grant or renew a license shall be conducted in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500), Part 1, Division 3, T
• § 62149 — The decision may include an order refusing to grant or renew the license applied for, or affixing other conditional and probationary orders that may be proper for the enforcement of any of the followi
• § 6215 — (a) The board of supervisors shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the petition.
• § 62150 — After any decision in favor of the issuance or renewal of a license which includes any conditional or probationary orders, if the person to whom the license is issued does not comply with any such ord
• § 62151 — The director may revoke or suspend, as the case may require, any license which is issued pursuant to this chapter, if he or she is satisfied that any licensee or any person who is connected with the l
• § 62152 — The director may also revoke or suspend any license of a handler if he is satisfied that the handler has not paid for any market milk delivered to him at the time and in the manner specified in the co
• § 62153 — The decision may include an order revoking or suspending the license held by the licensee, or affixing such other conditional and probationary orders as may be proper for the enforcement of this chapt
• § 62154 — After any decision, which includes any conditional or probationary orders, if the respondent does not comply with any such orders, the director may suspend or revoke the license in accordance with the
• § 62155 — Whenever the director is satisfied, either by investigation or after a hearing, that a handler is unable to pay for any market milk purchased from any producer, and is further satisfied that to permit