2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 21 - MARKETING
PART 3 - MARKETING LAWS REGARDING PARTICULAR PRODUCTS
CHAPTER 2 - Stabilization and Marketing of Market Milk
ARTICLE 13 - Bonding and Payment for Market Milk
Section 62202.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 62202 (2025)
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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, the director may assess a penalty for each payment date that producers were not fully paid. Any penalty assessed shall be a minimum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each payment date. If the amount not properly paid is in excess of forty thousand dollars ($40,000), the penalty assessed will be five thousand dollars ($5,000) or one-fourth of 1 percent of the amount not properly paid for, whichever is less.

(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1074, Sec. 23. Effective September 24, 1987.)

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