SECTIONS 57001-57013 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 57001-57013

57001. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in
this article govern the construction of this chapter.

57002. "Association" means an association of produce dealers which
is organized to carry out the responsibilities of produce dealers
which are imposed by this chapter.

57003. "City" includes city and county.

57004. "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.

57005. "Director" means the Director of Industrial Relations.

57007. "Farm product" means any fruit, nut, vegetable, berry, or
aquacultural product.

57008. "Hauler" means any trucker or carrier.

57009. "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.

57010. "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.

57011. "Producer" means any person who commercially grows and
markets farm products.

57012. "Registered unloader" means a person who unloads any farm
product in a market. It does not, however, include any of the
following:
(a) A producer of farm products, or his son or daughter, father or
mother, or regularly employed employee of such producer.
(b) The operator of any vehicle which is engaged in the
transportation of any farm product to market if the operation of such
vehicle is subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities
Commission and the rate which is charged for such transportation
includes the charge for unloading the farm product which is so
transported.

57013. "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.