[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1219.9]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1219_HASS AVOCADO PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart A_Hass Avocado Promotion, Research, and Information Order
 
Sec.  1219.9  First handler.

    First handler means a person operating in the Hass avocado marketing 
system that sells domestic or imported Hass avocados for consumption in 
the United States and who is responsible for remitting assessments to 
the

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Board. For the purposes of the Order, the term means the first person 
who handles Hass avocados for sale (except a common or contract carrier 
of Hass avocados owned by another person), including a producer who 
handles Hass avocados for sale of the producer's own production.