[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1131.10]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1131_MILK IN ARIZONA-LAS VEGAS MARKETING AREA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 1131.10  Producer-handler.

    Producer-handler means a person who:
    (a) Operates a dairy farm and a distributing plant from which there 
is route disposition in the marketing area during the month;
    (b) Receives fluid milk products from own farm production or milk 
that is fully subject to the pricing and pooling provisions of the order 
in this part or another Federal order;
    (c) Receives at its plant or acquires for route disposition no more 
than 150,000 pounds of fluid milk products from handlers fully regulated 
under any Federal order. This limitation shall not apply if the 
producer-handler's own farm production is less than 150,000 pounds 
during the month;
    (d) Disposes of no other source milk as Class I milk except by 
increasing the nonfat milk solids content of the fluid milk products;
    (e) Does not distribute fluid milk products to a wholesale customer 
who also is serviced by a plant described in Sec. 1131.7(a), (b), or 
(e), or a handler described in Sec. 1000.8(c) that supplied the same 
product in the same-sized package with a similar label to the wholesale 
customer during the month; and
    (f) Provides proof satisfactory to the market administrator that the 
care and management of the dairy animals and other resources necessary 
to produce all Class I milk handled (excluding receipts from handlers 
fully regulated under any Federal order) and the operation of the 
distributing plant

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are the personal enterprise of, and at the personal risk of, such person 
in his/her capacity as a producer-handler.