“Distributor” defined.
1. “Distributor” means any person, whether or not the person is a producer or an association of producers, who purchases or handles fluid milk, fluid cream or any other dairy product for sale, including brokers, agents, copartnerships, cooperative corporations, and incorporated and unincorporated associations.
2. The definition of “distributor” does not include any of the following:
(a) Any retail store that is not engaged in processing and packaging fluid milk or fluid cream or does not purchase, transport into the state, or otherwise receive for resale, fluid milk, fluid cream or any other dairy product from sources outside this state.
(b) Any establishment, where fluid milk or fluid cream is sold only for consumption on the premises, that is not engaged in processing and packaging fluid milk or fluid cream.
(c) Any person owned or controlled by one or more retail stores or owned or controlled by one or more establishments where fluid milk or fluid cream is sold for consumption on the premises, which person is not actively and directly engaged in the processing and packaging of fluid milk or fluid cream.
(d) Any producer who delivers fluid milk or fluid cream only to a distributor.
Last modified: February 26, 2006