2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 21 - MARKETING
PART 2 - GENERAL MARKETING LAWS
CHAPTER 2 - The Agricultural Producers Marketing Law
ARTICLE 1 - Short Title and Definitions
Section 59511.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 59511 (2025)
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59511. “Processor” means any person that buys, or otherwise takes title to or possession of, any commodity for the purpose of processing or manufacturing it or selling, reselling, or redelivering it in dried, canned, extracted, fermented, distilled, or other preserved form. It also includes all of the following:

(a) Any person or exchange that conducts such business.

(b) Any person or exchange that buys any commodity from the producer of the commodity for the purpose of reselling it to any person or exchange that conducts such business.

(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

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