California Code
ARTICLE 2 - Definitions
Section 72030.5.

72030.5. “Handler” also means any lienholder, secured party or pledgee that is a public agency, public or private, or assignee of a lienholder, secured party or pledgee that is a public agency, who is authorized to gain title to the wheat from the producer through the exercise of specified legal rights, including, but not limited to, a federal nonrecourse loan.

(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1004, Sec. 17. Effective September 26, 1985.)