Part 20 New York/New Jersey Milk Marketing Area (Revised Official Order No. 126)

Handler means: (a) any person who engages in the handling of skim milk or butterfat, which was received at a pool plant, a partial pool plant, a pool unit or a partial pool unit or at a plant approved by any health authority as a source of skim milk or butterfat for disposition a…

The market administrator shall establish and maintain a separate fund known as the “producer settlement fund” into which he shall deposit all payments and out of which he shall make all payments pursuant to sections 20.72 through 20.77 of this Part. All amounts subtracted under s…

The market administrator shall establish an account for each handler who is required to make payments to the producer settlement fund or who received payments from the producer settlement fund. After computing the uniform price and each handler's pool debit or credit each month, …

On or before the 16th day of each month, each handler shall make full payment to the market administrator of the debit balance, if any, of such handler shown on the last statement of account rendered pursuant to section 20.71 of this Part. Payments to the market administrator sha…

(a) On or before the 17th day of each month, the market administrator shall make payment to each handler of the credit balance, if any, of such handler shown on the last statement of account rendered pursuant to section 20.71 of this Part. If the date by which such payments are t…

After computing the uniform price for each month, the market administrator shall compute each handler's pool debit or credit as follows: (a) Add the amounts computed as follows: (1) multiply the quantity of pool milk received by each handler from dairy farmers by the uniform pric…

Whenever verification by the market administrator of reports or payments of any handler discloses errors made in payments to or from the producer settlement fund, the market administrator shall debit the handler's producer settlement fund account for any unpaid amount. Whenever v…

Any unpaid obligation of a handler pursuant to sections 20.72 and 20.85 of this Part shall be increased one percent on the first day after the due date of such obligation and on the same day of each succeeding month until such obligation is paid.

Payments shall be made to qualified cooperatives or to federations under the conditions, in the manner, and at the rates set forth in this section. As used in this section the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) Cooperative means a cooperative association of pr…

(a) Plant means the land, buildings, surroundings, facilities, and equipment, whether owned or operated by one or more persons, constituting a single operating unit or establishment for the receiving, handling, or processing of milk or milk products as determined by the market ad…

(a) On or before the last day of the month, each handler shall make payment to each producer for milk received from such producer during the first 15 days of the month at not less than the lowest class price for the preceding month. (b) On or before the 20th day of the month, eac…

The butterfat differential for the adjustment of prices as specified in this Part shall be plus or minus for each one tenth of one percent of butterfat above or below three and five-tenths percent an amount computed as follows: round to nearest one-tenth cent, 0.138 times the cur…

The transportation differential shall be plus or minus the appropriate differential shown in column B of the schedule in section 20.52(c) of this Part for the zone of the plant to which the milk is delivered or, in the case of farms included in units, the zone of the township in …

As his pro rata share of the expense of administration of this Part, each handler shall, on or before the date specified for making payment to the producer settlement fund pursuant to section 20.72 of this Part, pay to the market administrator a sum not exceeding five cents per h…

(a) Pool unit means a bulk tank unit established pursuant to section 20.25 of this Part and which meets the requirements of a pool unit pursuant to such section. (b) Partial pool unit means a bulk tank unit so designated pursuant to section 20.25 (k) of this Part.