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California Public Utilities Code Section 220

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"Freight forwarder" means any corporation or person who for
compensation undertakes the collection and shipment of property of
others, and as consignor or otherwise ships or arranges to ship the
property via the line of any common carrier at the tariff rates of
such carrier, or who receives such property as consignee thereof.
   This section shall not apply to any agricultural or horticultural
cooperative organization operating under and by virtue of the laws of
this or any other state or the District of Columbia or under federal
statute in the performance of its duties for its members, or the
agents, individual or corporate, of such organization in the
performance of their duties as agents.
   This section shall not apply to the operation of a shipper, or a
group or association of shippers, in consolidating or distributing
freight for themselves or for the members thereof, on a nonprofit
basis, for the purpose of securing the benefits of carload,
truckload, or other volume rates, or to the operations of a shippers'
agent, in consolidating or distributing pool cars, whose services
and responsibilities to shippers in connection with such operations
are confined to the terminal area in which such operations are
performed.

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