CHAPTER 3. Equalization Pools [62700. - 62731.]

Chapter 3 added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 927.

§§ 62700–62731 · 38 sections

§ 62700 The production and distribution of fluid milk and fluid cream is hereby declared to be a business affected with a public interest. The provisions of this…
§ 62701 It is hereby declared that fluid milk and fluid cream are necessary articles of food for human consumption; that the production and maintenance of an adequate…
§ 62702 It is recognized by the Legislature that currently the powers conferred upon the director by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) are inadequate to enable…
§ 62702.1 It is recognized by the Legislature that the provisions for equalization of usages among producers and entry of new producers contained in the Gonsalves Milk…
§ 62703 In effectuating the purposes of this chapter, a production base and a pool quota shall be established for each producer pursuant to Section 62707. The…
§ 62704 The director is authorized to develop a proposed pooling plan and to designate the proposed areas in which the plan will be made effective. He shall appoint…
§ 62705 After the director, with the advice and assistance of the formulation committee, has formulated the proposed plan, he shall hold one or more public hearings in…
§ 62706 The pooling plan shall prescribe the pooling area to be covered by each pool. Any such pooling area shall mean and include a large sales and consuming center…
§ 62707 The formulation committee shall make recommendations to the secretary for inclusion in the pooling plan, and the secretary shall include in the pooling plan,…
§ 62707.1 (a) The director, on July 1, 1978, shall issue new pool quota sufficient to bring all holders of production base and pool quota as of that date (excluding any…
§ 62707.2 A person eligible for, but not yet assigned, a production base or pool quota, or both, pursuant to Section 62707 shall not be eligible for such a production…
§ 62707.5 If a portion of the pool quota of any producer is transferred, it shall carry with it the same quantity of production base, except that if the pool quota…
§ 62707.6 In addition to the quota provided for under paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 62707.1, any quota returned to the director after April 30, 1981, shall…
§ 62708 “Producer-handler” for purposes of this chapter is any person that is both a producer and a handler of fluid milk or fluid cream. For the purposes of this…
§ 62708.1 Any producer-handler who qualified and elected an exemption under Section 62708 and continued eligibility for such exemption by complying with the requirements…
§ 62708.5 (a) A producer-handler, for purposes of this chapter, shall also include, as a separate and distinct category of producer-handlers, any producer and any…
§ 62710 The production base and the pool quota for milk shipped through a cooperative association shall belong to the individual producer but shall be assigned to the…
§ 62711 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (h) of Section 62707, each producer shall be paid the highest usage for that amount of his or her fluid milk production…
§ 62712 (a) The secretary may require handlers, including cooperative associations acting as handlers, to make reports at any intervals and in any detail that he or…
§ 62714 After the director has established pools, each distributor shall report to the director the total receipts from the producers that are shipping to the…
§ 62715 Any individual distributor purchasing milk from a producer shall continue to have the right to specify quality requirements that are more stringent than…
§ 62716 Following the required hearing, the director shall submit the pooling plan to producers concerned for their approval or disapproval in a statewide referendum.…
§ 62717 If the director finds that producers on a statewide basis have assented in writing to the proposed pooling plan submitted to them for assent, the director…
§ 62718 The pools established shall be administered by the director. Each distributor shall deduct from moneys owed producers and pay to the director the amount…
§ 62719 The director shall, from nominations submitted by producers, appoint a review board composed of no less than 12 members to advise him in the administration of…
§ 62719.1 It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers appointed to the review board pursuant to Section 62719 are intended to…
§ 62720 No pooling plan formulated pursuant to this chapter shall restrict the free movement of fluid milk and no pooling plan shall result in an unequal raw product…
§ 62721 No pooling plan shall control the production of fluid milk except insofar as may otherwise be specifically authorized in this chapter.
§ 62722 Pooling plans shall not apply to the production of goats milk or producer-handlers who produce and sell less than 500 gallons of fluid milk used for class 1…
§ 62723 Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definitions contained in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) govern the construction of this chapter. For…
§ 62724 This chapter does not modify the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 61301) nor Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) of this part, except as…
§ 62725 The director is authorized to use money in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund derived from assessments and fees collected pursuant to Chapter 2…
§ 62726 The director is the instrumentality of this state for the purpose of administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and to execute the legislative…
§ 62727 It is the intent of the Legislature that the power conferred in this chapter shall be liberally construed. The provisions of this chapter or subsequent…
§ 62728 The director shall terminate any pooling plan in effect in any marketing area without notice or hearing at any time that there ceases to be a stabilization and…
§ 62729 The director or his assistants, deputies, agents, or other employees, are authorized to travel out-of-state in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
§ 62730 Any violation of any provision of this chapter, or any regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, shall be punishable, and shall have the same effect, as a…
§ 62731 This chapter shall be known as the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act.