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SECTIONS 77521-77531

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE
SECTION 77521-77531
77521. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. 77522. "Books and records" means books, records, contracts, documents, memoranda, papers, correspondence, or other written data pertaining to matters relating to the activities subject to this chapter. 77523. "Commission" means the California Forest Products Commission. 77524. "Secretary" means the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. 77525. "Ex officio" means a nonvoting member of the commission. 77526. "Marketing year" or "fiscal year" means the period beginning January 1 of any year and extending through December 31 of the same year. 77527. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, firm, company, or other entity doing business in California. 77528. (a) "Producer" means any person who owns timber in California immediately prior to felling, or the first person who acquires either the legal title or beneficial title to timber after it has been felled from land owned in California by a federal agency, or any other person, agency, or entity exempt from property taxation under federal or state law. "Producer" includes any person who owns or acquires legal title or beneficial title to downed timber in this state and also includes the seller of timber located on land in the state owned by that seller if the timber sales agreement, contract, or other document provides for the payment of the purchase price on the basis of actual timber volume scaled and does not contain a passage of title clause. (b) For purposes of this chapter, a person in California that owns, controls, or is affiliated with any other person engaged in the selling or acquiring of timber in California in any marketing year shall be considered to be the producer of all timber sold or acquired by that person. "Affiliate" or "affiliated with" means a person who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control of another person. "Control" means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of any person. (c) "Producer" does not include any person who sells or acquires in any marketing year less than 5,000,000 board feet net Scribner Decimal C log rule, or the equivalent thereof as determined by the commission. 77529. "Product promotion" means the generic promotion of forest products in domestic and foreign markets. "Product promotion" does not include reference to either unprocessed logs sold in foreign markets or to rough-sawn products sold in foreign markets for remanufacture. 77530. "Research" means any economic, cultural, or biological search, inquiry, examination, investigation, or experimentation, or any other search, inquiry, examination, investigation, or experimentation. 77531. "Timber" or "forest products" means trees of any species maintained for eventual harvest whether planted or of natural growth, standing or down, on privately or publicly owned land, and also includes wood products related thereto, but does not mean nursery stock.

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