California Food and Agricultural Code CHAPTER 3 - Equalization Pools

• Section 62700.
  The production and distribution of fluid milk and fluid cream is hereby declared to be a business affected with a public interest. The provisions of...
• Section 62701.
  It is hereby declared that fluid milk and fluid cream are necessary articles of food for human consumption; that the production and maintenance of an...
• Section 62702.
  It is recognized by the Legislature that currently the powers conferred upon the director by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) are inadequate to enable...
• Section 62702.1.
  It is recognized by the Legislature that the provisions for equalization of usages among producers and entry of new producers contained in the Gonsalves Milk...
• Section 62703.
  In effectuating the purposes of this chapter, a production base and a pool quota shall be established for each producer pursuant to Section 62707. The...
• Section 62704.
  The director is authorized to develop a proposed pooling plan and to designate the proposed areas in which the plan will be made effective. He...
• Section 62705.
  After the director, with the advice and assistance of the formulation committee, has formulated the proposed plan, he shall hold one or more public hearings...
• Section 62706.
  The pooling plan shall prescribe the pooling area to be covered by each pool. Any such pooling area shall mean and include a large sales...
• Section 62707.
  The formulation committee shall make recommendations to the secretary for inclusion in the pooling plan, and the secretary shall include in the pooling plan, all...
• Section 62707.1.
  (a) The director, on July 1, 1978, shall issue new pool quota sufficient to bring all holders of production base and pool quota as of that...
• Section 62707.2.
  A person eligible for, but not yet assigned, a production base or pool quota, or both, pursuant to Section 62707 shall not be eligible for...
• Section 62707.5.
  If a portion of the pool quota of any producer is transferred, it shall carry with it the same quantity of production base, except that...
• Section 62707.6.
  In addition to the quota provided for under paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 62707.1, any quota returned to the director after April 30,...
• Section 62708.
  “Producer-handler” for purposes of this chapter is any person that is both a producer and a handler of fluid milk or fluid cream. For the...
• Section 62708.1.
  Any producer-handler who qualified and elected an exemption under Section 62708 and continued eligibility for such exemption by complying with the requirements of that section...
• Section 62708.5.
  (a) A producer-handler, for purposes of this chapter, shall also include, as a separate and distinct category of producer-handlers, any producer and any handler who purchases...
• Section 62710.
  The production base and the pool quota for milk shipped through a cooperative association shall belong to the individual producer but shall be assigned to...
• Section 62711.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (h) of Section 62707, each producer shall be paid the highest usage for that amount of his or her fluid...
• Section 62712.
  (a) The secretary may require handlers, including cooperative associations acting as handlers, to make reports at any intervals and in any detail that he or she...
• Section 62714.
  After the director has established pools, each distributor shall report to the director the total receipts from the producers that are shipping to the distributor...
• Section 62715.
  Any individual distributor purchasing milk from a producer shall continue to have the right to specify quality requirements that are more stringent than standards set...
• Section 62716.
  Following the required hearing, the director shall submit the pooling plan to producers concerned for their approval or disapproval in a statewide referendum.The approval or...
• Section 62717.
  If the director finds that producers on a statewide basis have assented in writing to the proposed pooling plan submitted to them for assent, the...
• Section 62718.
  The pools established shall be administered by the director. Each distributor shall deduct from moneys owed producers and pay to the director the amount necessary...
• Section 62719.
  The director shall, from nominations submitted by producers, appoint a review board composed of no less than 12 members to advise him in the administration...
• Section 62719.1.
  It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers appointed to the review board pursuant to Section 62719 are intended to represent...
• Section 62720.
  No pooling plan formulated pursuant to this chapter shall restrict the free movement of fluid milk and no pooling plan shall result in an unequal...
• Section 62721.
  No pooling plan shall control the production of fluid milk except insofar as may otherwise be specifically authorized in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch.
• Section 62722.
  Pooling plans shall not apply to the production of goats milk or producer-handlers who produce and sell less than 500 gallons of fluid milk used...
• Section 62723.
  Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definitions contained in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) govern the construction of this chapter.For the purposes of...
• Section 62724.
  This chapter does not modify the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 61301) nor Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) of this part, except...
• Section 62725.
  The director is authorized to use money in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund derived from assessments and fees collected pursuant to Chapter 2...
• Section 62726.
  The director is the instrumentality of this state for the purpose of administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and to execute the legislative...
• Section 62727.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the power conferred in this chapter shall be liberally construed. The provisions of this chapter or subsequent...
• Section 62728.
  The director shall terminate any pooling plan in effect in any marketing area without notice or hearing at any time that there ceases to be...
• Section 62729.
  The director or his assistants, deputies, agents, or other employees, are authorized to travel out-of-state in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter.(Added...
• Section 62730.
  Any violation of any provision of this chapter, or any regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, shall be punishable, and shall have the same effect,...
• Section 62731.
  This chapter shall be known as the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act.(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 927.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018