Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152-A – Agricultural cooperatives which are producer-dealers
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1. Exemption; pool payments. An agricultural cooperative that is a producer-dealer under section 3152, subsection 10 is exempt from payment into and redistributions out of the Maine Milk Pool to the extent that the milk sold or otherwise distributed by the agricultural cooperative does not exceed 5,000,000 pounds a month. Nothing in this subsection exempts an agricultural cooperative that is a producer-dealer from any other requirements of this chapter. In any month in which the milk sold or otherwise distributed by the agricultural cooperative that is a producer-dealer exceeds 5,000,000 pounds, the agricultural cooperative shall make payment into and redistributions out of the Maine Milk Pool in accordance with this chapter with respect to that milk that is in excess of 5,000,000 pounds.
[PL 2005, c. 382, Pt. F, §29 (AMD).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152-A
- Maine Milk Pool: means the sum of collections as prescribed in section 3153, from Maine market producers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
- Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Producer-dealer: means a dealer who produces a part or all of the dealer's milk or a person who produces milk and sells to a grocery store or dairy products store or similar commercial establishment, and includes an agricultural cooperative comprised solely of dairy farmers that wholly owns and operates its processing facilities, and whose individual members hold a share of that ownership that is in direct proportion to that individual's share of all milk produced by cooperative members for the cooperative, except that such an agricultural cooperative is a "producer-dealer" under this chapter only if it was in existence on January 1, 1986, and had been recognized on or before that date by the commissioner as meeting the criteria established in this subsection. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152
2. Promotion; administration.
[PL 1999, c. 161, §4 (RP).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1985, c. 646, §3 (NEW). PL 1999, c. 161, §4 (AMD). PL 2005, c. 382, §F29 (AMD).