SECTIONS 59501-59514 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 59501-59514

59501. This chapter shall be known as the Agricultural Producers
Marketing Law.

59502. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in
this article govern the construction of this chapter.

59504. "Commodity" means any horticultural, viticultural, or
vegetable product of the soil, aquacultural, livestock and livestock
products, and poultry and poultry products. It does not, however,
include milk or milk products.

59505. "Dealer" means any distributor or retailer.

59506. "Distributor" means any person, except a retailer, that
acquires and distributes any commodity at wholesale or retail.

59507. "Handler" means any person that receives any commodity from
the producer for the purpose of marketing it.

59508. "Marketing program" means any program which contains
provisions which are authorized by Article 8 (commencing with Section
59801) of this chapter.

59509. "Primary channel of trade" means that transaction in which
the producer or a cooperative marketing association of producers
transfers physical possession of the commodity to another person in
the current of commercial trade.

59510. "Producer" means any person that is engaged in the business
of growing or producing any commodity for commercial use.

59511. "Processor" means any person that buys, or otherwise takes
title to or possession of, any commodity for the purpose of
processing or manufacturing it or selling, reselling, or redelivering
it in dried, canned, extracted, fermented, distilled, or other
preserved form. It also includes all of the following:
(a) Any person or exchange that conducts such business.
(b) Any person or exchange that buys any commodity from the
producer of the commodity for the purpose of reselling it to any
person or exchange that conducts such business.

59512. "Proration" means the application of allocated quantities or
percentages under a uniform rule to the production, or merchantable
production, of all producers that are affected, for the purpose of
regulating the quantity of any commodity which may be harvested,
prepared for market, or marketed in primary channels of trade during
any specified period.

59513. "Proration zone" means any district for which a marketing
program is proposed or has been instituted.

59514. "Retailer" means any person that is engaged in the business
of making retail sales direct to the general public.