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2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 21 - MARKETING
PART 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 3 - Void Contracts and Restraint of Trade
ARTICLE 2 - Destruction of Foodstuffs in Restraint of Trade
Section 58382.
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CA Food & Agri Code § 58382 (2025)
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58382. A person that receives any agricultural product, for sale on commission or for sale or exchange for the benefit of any other person, shall not destroy, abandon, discard as refuse, or dump, such product, without a permit in writing from the commissioner, county health officer, director, State Director of Health Services, or from some other official now or hereafter authorized by law to issue permits for the destruction of such product. Such permits, together with a detailed statement of every product which is destroyed pursuant to the permit, shall be kept on file by the person to whom they are issued.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
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