California Code
PART 3 - MARKETING LAWS REGARDING PARTICULAR PRODUCTS
CHAPTER 2 - Stabilization and Marketing of Market Milk

ARTICLE 1 - Legislative Declarations

Section 61801. - 61801. The production of market milk is hereby declared to...

Section 61802. - 61802. The Legislature hereby declares all of the following: (a)...

Section 61803. - 61803. It is recognized by the Legislature that conditions within...

Section 61804. - 61804. The foregoing statements in this article of facts, policy,...

Section 61805. - 61805. The purposes of this chapter are to do all...

Section 61806. - 61806. It is the intent of the Legislature that the...

Section 61807. - 61807. Nothing in this chapter permits or authorizes the development...

Section 61808. - 61808. The Legislature hereby declares that this chapter is intended...

Section 61809. - 61809. If any article, section, subdivision, sentence, clause, or phrase...

Section 61810. - 61810. Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 61301), Chapter 2.5 (commencing...

Section 61811. - 61811. No provision of this chapter, or of any stabilization...

Section 61812. - 61812. Neither the repeal of former Chapter 2 of this...

ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

Section 61821. - 61821. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 61822. - 61822. “Board” means any advisory board created as authorized in...

Section 61823. - 61823. “Bulk market milk” means market milk which has not...

Section 61824. - 61824. “Consumer” means any person that purchases market milk, or...

Section 61825. - 61825. “Dairy product” or “milk product” includes any product manufactured...

Section 61826. - 61826. “Handler” means any person who, as owner, agent, broker,...

Section 61827. - 61827. “Market cream” means cream, as defined in this code,...

Section 61828. - 61828. “Market milk” has the meaning of that term as...

Section 61829. - 61829. “Market skim milk” means skim milk, as defined in...

Section 61830. - 61830. “Marketing area” is any area within this state declared...

Section 61831. - 61831. “Milk” has the meaning of that term as defined...

Section 61831.5. - 61831.5. “Milk used for manufacturing purposes” means all milk used...

Section 61832. - 61832. “Milk plant” means any place, structure, or building where...

Section 61833. - 61833. “Packaged market milk” or “packaged market cream” means market...

Section 61834. - 61834. “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability...

Section 61835. - 61835. “Processing” means receiving, pasteurizing, and packaging market milk. It...

Section 61836. - 61836. “Producer” means any person that produces market milk from...

Section 61837. - 61837. “Producer-handler” means any person that is both a producer...

Section 61838. - 61838. “Stabilization and marketing plan” means any plan formulated and...

Section 61839. - 61839. “Wholesale customer” means any person except a distributor that...

ARTICLE 3 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations

Section 61871. - 61871. For the purposes of this chapter, a nonprofit cooperative...

Section 61872. - 61872. For the purposes of this chapter, a nonprofit cooperative...

Section 61873. - 61873. A nonprofit cooperative association accounts to producers on a...

ARTICLE 4 - Administration

Section 61891. - 61891. The director shall enforce the provisions of this chapter...

Section 61892. - 61892. The director shall have and may exercise any or...

Section 61893. - 61893. The director is the instrumentality of this state for...

Section 61894. - 61894. For the purposes of enforcing this chapter, the director...

Section 61895. - 61895. The director may require the registration of producers. (Added...

Section 61896. - 61896. The director may formulate any stabilization and marketing plan...

Section 61897. - 61897. A full and accurate record of business or acts...

Section 61898. - 61898. In addition to the compilation of information which pertains...

Section 61899. - 61899. Any order of the director made pursuant to this...

Section 61900. - 61900. The director may confer, enter into agreements, or otherwise...

Section 61901. - 61901. All money received by the director pursuant to this...

Section 61902. - 61902. If the director determines that it is probable that...

Section 61903. - 61903. Any person who has testified under oath at a...

Section 61904. - 61904. Any provisions of a stabilization and marketing plan formulated,...

ARTICLE 5 - Classes of Market Milk

Section 61931. - 61931. Market milk may be classified for the purposes of...

Section 61932. - 61932. Class 1 comprises: (a) Any market milk, market skim...

Section 61933. - 61933. Class 2 comprises any market milk, market skim milk,...

Section 61934. - 61934. Class 3 comprises all market milk, market skim milk,...

Section 61935. - 61935. (a) Class 4a comprises all market milk, market skim...

Section 61936. - 61936. If the director establishes a temporary definition and standards...

Section 61937. - 61937. Market milk, market skim milk, or market cream, utilized...

ARTICLE 6 - Marketing Areas

Section 61961. - 61961. The director shall designate marketing areas which he deems...

Section 61962. - 61962. The director may establish additional areas, or modify areas...

Section 61963. - 61963. If the director finds, after a public hearing in...

ARTICLE 7 - Formation and Adoption of Stabilization and Marketing Plans

Section 61991. - 61991. Except as otherwise provided in Section 61992, the director...

Section 61992. - 61992. A hearing need not, however, be held if a...

Section 61993. - 61993. If the director finds that a stablization and marketing...

Section 61994. - 61994. The notice of the hearing may be effected by...

Section 61995. - 61995. At the hearing, interested parties shall be heard and...

Section 61996. - 61996. If, after the public hearing, the director determines that...

Section 61997. - 61997. A handler that is subject to the provisions of...

Section 61998. - 61998. No stabilization or marketing plan shall contain provisions the...

ARTICLE 8 - Amendment and Termination of Stabilization and Marketing Plans

Section 62031. - 62031. The director may amend or terminate any stabilization and...

Section 62032. - 62032. A hearing on the amendment or termination of a...

ARTICLE 9 - Establishment of Minimum Prices and Provisions of Stabilization and Marketing Plans

Section 62061. - 62061. Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions for...

Section 62062. - 62062. Each stabilization and marketing plan shall contain provisions whereby...

Section 62062.1. - 62062.1. Any designation of a class 1 price by any...

Section 62062.5. - 62062.5. The minimum prices otherwise established pursuant to this chapter...

Section 62063. - 62063. Subject to the provisions of Sections 62074 and 62075,...

Section 62064. - 62064. Each stabilization and marketing plan shall provide all of...

Section 62065. - 62065. No amendment of this article terminates or invalidates any...

Section 62066. - 62066. Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the...

Section 62067. - 62067. Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions which...

Section 62068. - 62068. Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions which...

Section 62069. - 62069. The director may establish minimum prices to be paid...

Section 62070. - 62070. Each stabilization and marketing plan may further provide for...

Section 62071. - 62071. Each stabilization and marketing plan may provide for minimum...

Section 62072. - 62072. In establishing minimum handler service charges under Section 62071,...

Section 62073. - 62073. If any contract between a handler and a producer...

Section 62074. - 62074. If the director establishes a stabilization and marketing plan...

Section 62074.5. - 62074.5. A stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions necessary...

Section 62075. - 62075. The director shall establish the minimum prices to be...

Section 62076. - 62076. In establishing prices to be paid by handlers to...

Section 62077. - 62077. A handler shall not pay any producer less than...

Section 62078. - 62078. All handlers who receive market milk within this state...

Section 62079. - 62079. Whenever a pooling plan is in effect as provided...

ARTICLE 10 - Unlawful Trade Practices

Section 62091. - 62091. The unlawful trade practices described in this article apply...

Section 62092. - 62092. The payment, allowance, or acceptance of any secret rebate,...

Section 62093. - 62093. The giving of any milk, cream, dairy product, service,...

Section 62094. - 62094. The payment, gift, or the offer or promise of...

Section 62095. - 62095. The payment, gift, or the offer or promise of...

ARTICLE 11 - Sales to the United States

Section 62121. - 62121. The director may require that each person that submits...

ARTICLE 12 - Handlers Licenses

Section 62141. - 62141. The licenses provided for in this article are required...

Section 62142. - 62142. For the purposes of this article, “handler” shall include...

Section 62143. - 62143. No person who qualifies as a handler under Section...

Section 62144. - 62144. Applications for the license provided by this article shall...

Section 62145. - 62145. One-half of the valid license renewals shall be issued...

Section 62146. - 62146. The director may refuse to grant or renew any...

Section 62147. - 62147. The director may also refuse to grant or renew...

Section 62148. - 62148. The proceedings to determine whether or not the director...

Section 62149. - 62149. The decision may include an order refusing to grant...

Section 62150. - 62150. After any decision in favor of the issuance or...

Section 62151. - 62151. The director may revoke or suspend, as the case...

Section 62152. - 62152. The director may also revoke or suspend any license...

Section 62153. - 62153. The decision may include an order revoking or suspending...

Section 62154. - 62154. After any decision, which includes any conditional or probationary...

Section 62155. - 62155. Whenever the director is satisfied, either by investigation or...

ARTICLE 13 - Bonding and Payment for Market Milk

Section 62181. - 62181. The bonds provided for in this article are required...

Section 62182. - 62182. (a) Every handler that operates only one plant within...

Section 62183. - 62183. If any handler so increases his purchases of market...

Section 62184. - 62184. The bonds required by Sections 62182 and 62183 shall...

Section 62185. - 62185. If a handler fails to pay any producer or...

Section 62186. - 62186. After determining the claims of such producers, the director...

Section 62186.1. - 62186.1. (a) The director may bring an action against a...

Section 62187. - 62187. If a handler fails to pay any producer in...

Section 62188. - 62188. If recovery upon the bond is not sufficient to...

Section 62189. - 62189. The failure of any handler that purchases market milk...

Section 62190. - 62190. Payments by a handler to a producer, for the...

Section 62191. - 62191. (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 62193 or...

Section 62192. - 62192. The production of market milk in excess of amounts...

Section 62193. - 62193. Section 62191 does not apply to the purchase of...

Section 62194. - 62194. Section 62191 does not apply to market milk purchased...

Section 62195. - 62195. The payment by a handler to any producer, including...

Section 62196. - 62196. The failure of any handler to pay for market...

Section 62197. - 62197. This article applies regardless of the form in which...

Section 62198. - 62198. Any contract between a producer and handler is voidable...

Section 62199. - 62199. If a notice has been issued by the director...

Section 62200. - 62200. (a) Handlers shall pay producers either by check or...

Section 62201. - 62201. (a) If a handler does not pay for market...

Section 62202. - 62202. If a handler fails to pay for market milk...

ARTICLE 14 - Administrative Fees

Section 62211. - 62211. (a) (1) Every handler subject to the provisions of...

Section 62212. - 62212. The director may fix the rates of assessments or...

Section 62213. - 62213. Any assessment or fee or either of them payable...

ARTICLE 15 - Reports and Statistics

Section 62241. - 62241. All handlers shall make and file with the director...

Section 62241.5. - 62241.5. Within 60 days of the effective date of this...

Section 62242. - 62242. Every handler that purchases market milk shall make and...

Section 62243. - 62243. Any record or report made to the director pursuant...

ARTICLE 17 - Local and Regional Producer Advisory Boards

Section 62301. - 62301. Except as otherwise provided in Section 62303, the director...

Section 62302. - 62302. Except as otherwise provided in Section 62303, the director...

Section 62303. - 62303. The director shall not establish any local or regional...

Section 62304. - 62304. If the director receives a qualified petition for a...

Section 62305. - 62305. A local advisory board established pursuant to this article...

Section 62306. - 62306. The term of office of each member of a...

Section 62307. - 62307. The director may remove any member from a local...

Section 62308. - 62308. The director may appoint a member to fill any...

Section 62309. - 62309. Each regional advisory board and each local advisory board...

Section 62310. - 62310. Any regional or local advisory board may, with the...

Section 62311. - 62311. Regional and local advisory boards shall review with the...

Section 62312. - 62312. For purposes of developing uniformity of administration as between...

Section 62313. - 62313. It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative...

ARTICLE 18 - Actions and Penalties

Section 62401. - 62401. The violation of any provision of this chapter, or...

Section 62402. - 62402. Any person who violates this chapter, any provision of...

Section 62403. - 62403. The director may bring an action to enjoin the...