ARTICLE 1. Short Title and Definitions [59501. - 59514.]

Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.

§§ 59501–59514 · 13 sections

• § 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…
• § 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…
• § 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…
• § 59512 “Proration” means the application of allocated quantities or percentages under a uniform rule to the production, or merchantable production, of all producers…
• § 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.