California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 9 - Producer’s Lien

• Section 55631.
  (a) Every producer of any farm product that sells any product that is grown by him or her to any processor under contract, express or implied,...
• Section 55631.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 55461, a nonprofit cooperative association acting as a producer bargaining association may assert producer’s lien rights for, or on behalf of, its members.(Added...
• Section 55632.
  This producer’s lien attaches on all of such delivered product from the date of delivery of such farm product or any portion of it by...
• Section 55633.
  The producer’s lien is a preferred lien prior in dignity to all other liens, claims, or encumbrances except the following:(a) Labor claims for wages and salaries...
• Section 55634.
  Every lien which is provided for in this article is on every farm product and any processed form of the farm product which is in...
• Section 55635.
  The lien of a producer, unless sooner released by payment or by security which is given for the payment as provided in this article, attaches...
• Section 55636.
  If suit is commenced by any such producer to enforce any lien, such lien shall remain in effect until one of the following occurs:(a) The payment...
• Section 55637.
  Any lien on any product or processed product may, however, be released, to the extent the value of the claim upon such product is secured,...
• Section 55638.
  It is unlawful for any processor to remove, from this state or beyond his ownership or control, any farm product which is delivered to him,...
• Section 55638.5.
  The director, within 15 days of the filing of a verified complaint by a producer, shall investigate any charge that a purchaser of a farm...
• Section 55639.
  Any processor that desires to secure a release of any or all of such liens on any product or processed product may do so in...
• Section 55640.
  If all lawful claims of the producers have been paid in accordance with this article by any processor, any product which is released by such...
• Section 55641.
  If a bond, cash deposit, or security is given to the director by any processor as provided in this article, such processor may sell, transport,...
• Section 55642.
  The director may accept such bond, if approved by him, and such other security. If the claims or any of them are not paid in...
• Section 55643.
  If a bond has been given as security, the director shall notify the principal and surety of any default on the part of the principal...
• Section 55644.
  If the director has received warehouse receipts for any processed product as security, and the processor giving them has failed to pay the claims in...
• Section 55645.
  All claims in relation to payment shall have equal standing and payment shall be prorated if necessary among the claimants.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 55646.
  This article does not prevent the director if in his opinion the rights of all of the claimants are fully protected, as provided for in...
• Section 55647.
  This article does not impair or affect the right of any claimant that possesses a lien to maintain a personal action to recover such debt...
• Section 55648.
  The judgment, if any, which is obtained by the plaintiff in such personal action, or personal judgment which is obtained in such lien action, does...
• Section 55649.
  In an action that is filed by any such lien claimant, the defendant processor may file with the court in which the action is pending...
• Section 55650.
  Such processor may also, on motion duly noticed, introduce evidence to the court before whom any such action is pending to the effect that he...
• Section 55651.
  The plaintiff in an action which is brought to foreclose any of the liens which are provided for in this article may, in a proper...
• Section 55652.
  If in a court proceeding to foreclose such lien, it is found and determined by the court that there is no cash, bond, or other...
• Section 55653.
  All actions filed by the director or producers against any processor for the foreclosure of the liens or other security which are provided for in...

Last modified: October 22, 2018