California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 13 - Bonding and Payment for Market Milk

• Section 62181.
  The bonds provided for in this article are required for each handler and apply to all purchases of milk by that handler. A handler bonded...
• Section 62182.
  (a) Every handler that operates only one plant within the state, before purchasing any market milk from a producer, shall execute and deliver to the secretary...
• Section 62183.
  If any handler so increases his purchases of market milk during the license year that such purchases exceed the amount for which the handler is...
• Section 62184.
  The bonds required by Sections 62182 and 62183 shall be upon a form approved by the director, and shall be conditioned upon the payment in...
• Section 62185.
  If a handler fails to pay any producer or producers for market milk in the manner that is required by this chapter, the director shall...
• Section 62186.
  After determining the claims of such producers, the director shall bring an action on the bond on behalf of such producers.Any producer not satisfied with...
• Section 62186.1.
  (a) The director may bring an action against a surety bond company if the company fails to do any of the following:(1) Acknowledge promptly and act reasonably...
• Section 62187.
  If a handler fails to pay any producer in the manner that is required by this chapter, the director may require the filing of a...
• Section 62188.
  If recovery upon the bond is not sufficient to pay all of the claims as finally determined and adjudged by the court, any such amount...
• Section 62189.
  The failure of any handler that purchases market milk from producers to execute and deliver the bond as provided and required in this article is...
• Section 62190.
  Payments by a handler to a producer, for the purposes of any action on a handler’s bond or bonds for any year or years, shall...
• Section 62191.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 62193 or 62194, the purchase of any market milk in excess of 1,000 gallons monthly from any producer is...
• Section 62192.
  The production of market milk in excess of amounts provided to be purchased under contracts executed pursuant to Section 62191 shall be voluntary on the...
• Section 62193.
  Section 62191 does not apply to the purchase of market milk which is necessary to meet an unanticipated increase in demand or an unanticipated shortage...
• Section 62194.
  Section 62191 does not apply to market milk purchased under cash-on-delivery terms.(Added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 156, Sec. 43. Effective July 10, 1987.)
• Section 62195.
  The payment by a handler to any producer, including any nonprofit cooperative association acting as a producer, or the receipt from a handler by a...
• Section 62196.
  The failure of any handler to pay for market milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in the...
• Section 62197.
  This article applies regardless of the form in which market milk is received by the handler and regardless of the area of origin of the...
• Section 62198.
  Any contract between a producer and handler is voidable by the producer for a 45-day period following the occurrence of either of the following events:(a) The...
• Section 62199.
  If a notice has been issued by the director that the future deliveries to the handler will not be covered under the Milk Producers Security...
• Section 62200.
  (a) Handlers shall pay producers either by check or cash. Handlers electing to pay producers by cash shall, in all cases, obtain a dated, signed receipt...
• Section 62201.
  (a) If a handler does not pay for market milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in the contract,...
• Section 62202.
  If a handler fails to pay for market milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in this chapter,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018