62211. (a) (1) Every handler subject to the provisions of any stabilization and marketing plan, including a producer-handler, shall deduct as an assessment from payments made to producers for market milk, including the handler’s own production, the sum of one and six-tenths cents ($0.016) per hundredweight of market milk.
(2) The amount of the assessments so deducted shall be paid to the secretary on or before the 45th day following the last day of the month during which such market milk was received.
(b) (1) Every handler subject to the provisions of any stabilization and marketing plan that purchases or handles market milk from producers, including the handler’s own production, if any, shall pay a fee of eight-tenths of one cent ($0.008) per hundredweight of market milk.
(2) The amount of such fee shall be paid to the secretary on or before the 45th day following the last day of the month in which that market milk was received.
(c) Moneys from the amounts paid to the secretary pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) may be used to administer and enforce this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 260, Sec. 9. (AB 1894) Effective January 1, 2017.)