SECTIONS 61871-61873 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 61871-61873

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 and any nonmembers of the association, to whom it accounts on
a patronage basis, is a producer in any of the following
transactions:
(a) Any transaction which involves its receipt or handling of bulk
market milk produced or delivered by such producers.
(b) Any transaction which involves the sale or delivery of bulk
market milk to any producer, handler, or manufacturer, or other
nonprofit cooperative association of producers.
(c) The receipt by it of payment for bulk market milk, packaged
market milk, or any other product of market milk produced or
delivered by such producers.
(d) Any transaction in connection with accounting to such
producers for the proceeds derived from the sale or marketing of bulk
market milk, packaged market milk, or any other product of market
milk produced or delivered by such producers.

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 and any nonmembers of the association, to whom it accounts on
a patronage basis, is a handler in any transaction which involves
the receipt by it of market milk from any person other than a
producer to whom it accounts on a patronage basis and in any
transaction which involves the pasteurization of bulk market milk or
the packaging of it in bottles, cartons, dispenser cans, or other
consumer packages, or the sale or delivery of packaged market milk.

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
association, according to quantity and quality of market milk
furnished to the association for marketing and according to any
marketing pools and quotas established by the association.