{"code":"FAC","codeName":"Food and Agricultural Code","section":"58608","citation":"Food & Agr. Code, § 58608","status":"in-force","lawOn":"2026-09-28","headings":[{"name":"DIVISION 21. MARKETING [58001. - 63129.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/food-and-agricultural-code/division-21"},{"name":"PART 2. GENERAL MARKETING LAWS [58601. - 60016.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/food-and-agricultural-code/division-21/part-2"},{"name":"CHAPTER 1. California Marketing Act of 1937 [58601. - 59293.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/food-and-agricultural-code/division-21/part-2/chapter-1"},{"name":"ARTICLE 1. Short Title and Definitions [58601. - 58624.]","url":"https://blackletter.si/food-and-agricultural-code/division-21/part-2/chapter-1/article-1"}],"history":"Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.","effective":null,"html":"<p>“Distributor” means any person that engages in the operation of selling, marketing, or distributing, in intrastate commerce any commodity which he has produced or purchased or acquired from a producer or which he is marketing on behalf of a producer, whether as owner, agent, employee, broker, or otherwise. It does not, however, include a retailer, except a retailer that purchases or acquires from, or handles on behalf of any producer, any commodity which was not previously subjected to regulation by the marketing order which covers such commodity.</p>","text":"“Distributor” means any person that engages in the operation of selling, marketing, or distributing, in intrastate commerce any commodity which he has produced or purchased or acquired from a producer or which he is marketing on behalf of a producer, whether as owner, agent, employee, broker, or otherwise. It does not, however, include a retailer, except a retailer that purchases or acquires from, or handles on behalf of any producer, any commodity which was not previously subjected to regulation by the marketing order which covers such commodity.","otherVersions":[],"url":"https://blackletter.si/food-and-agricultural-code/short-title-and-definitions-58608","source":"California Legislative Information bulk export (pubinfo)"}