eLaws of Florida

 

  CHAPTER 601. FLORIDA CITRUS CODE  


SECTION 601.01. Short title.
SECTION 601.02. Purposes.
SECTION 601.03. Definitions.
SECTION 601.04. Florida Citrus Commission; creation and membership.
SECTION 601.041. The Friends of Florida Citrus Program; advisory council.
SECTION 601.045. Commission meetings; report of department’s internal auditor.
SECTION 601.05. Department of Citrus a body corporate.
SECTION 601.06. Compensation and expenses of commission members.
SECTION 601.07. Location of executive offices.
SECTION 601.08. Authenticated copies of commission records as evidence.
SECTION 601.09. Citrus districts.
SECTION 601.091. Florida SunRidge, Indian River, and Gulf production areas, boundaries and designation.
SECTION 601.10. Powers of the Department of Citrus.
SECTION 601.101. Ownership of rights under patent and trademark laws developed or acquired under this chapter.
SECTION 601.11. Department of Citrus; power to establish standards; rulemaking authority.
SECTION 601.111. Maturity standards; modification by emergency rule.
SECTION 601.13. Citrus research; administration by Department of Citrus; appropriation.
SECTION 601.15. Advertising campaign; methods of conducting; assessments; emergency reserve fund; citrus research.
SECTION 601.152. Special marketing orders.
SECTION 601.155. Equalizing assessment; credit; exemption.
SECTION 601.24. Department of Citrus to prescribe methods of testing and grading.
SECTION 601.25. Determination of soluble solids and acid.
SECTION 601.27. Department of Agriculture; citrus inspectors.
SECTION 601.28. Inspection fees.
SECTION 601.281. Road guard fees.
SECTION 601.29. Powers of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
SECTION 601.31. Citrus inspectors; employment.
SECTION 601.32. Compensation of inspectors.
SECTION 601.33. Interference with inspectors.
SECTION 601.34. Duties of law enforcement officers.
SECTION 601.35. Disputes as to quality, etc.; procedure.
SECTION 601.36. Inspection information required when two or more lots of fruit run simultaneously.
SECTION 601.37. Unlawful acts of inspectors.
SECTION 601.38. Citrus inspectors; authority.
SECTION 601.39. Special inspectors.
SECTION 601.40. Registration of citrus packinghouses, processing plants with Department of Agriculture.
SECTION 601.41. Operation without registration unlawful.
SECTION 601.42. Revocation of registration.
SECTION 601.43. Immature and unfit citrus fruit; individual sampling.
SECTION 601.44. Destruction of immature fruit.
SECTION 601.45. Grading of fresh citrus fruit.
SECTION 601.46. Condition precedent to sale of citrus fruit.
SECTION 601.461. Falsification of weights; penalty.
SECTION 601.47. Condition precedent to processing citrus.
SECTION 601.471. Definition of “canned or concentrated citrus fruit products” expanded.
SECTION 601.48. Grading processed citrus products.
SECTION 601.49. Condition precedent to selling processed citrus products.
SECTION 601.50. Exemptions; sale or shipment of citrus or citrus products for certain purposes.
SECTION 601.501. Charitable shipments exempt from assessments.
SECTION 601.51. Certification required for shipment of citrus fruit or products.
SECTION 601.52. Carriers not to accept fruit without evidence of payment of assessments and fees.
SECTION 601.53. Unlawful to process unwholesome citrus.
SECTION 601.54. Seizure of unwholesome fruit by Department of Agriculture’s agents.
SECTION 601.55. Citrus fruit dealer; license required.
SECTION 601.56. Application for dealers’ licenses; requirements.
SECTION 601.57. Examination of application; approval of dealers’ licenses.
SECTION 601.58. Application approval or disapproval.
SECTION 601.59. Dealer’s license fee; agent’s registration fee.
SECTION 601.60. Issuance of dealers’ licenses.
SECTION 601.601. Registration of dealers’ agents.
SECTION 601.61. Bond requirements of citrus fruit dealers.
SECTION 601.611. Applicable law in event ch. 61-389 held invalid.
SECTION 601.64. Citrus fruit dealers; unlawful acts.
SECTION 601.641. Fraudulent representations, penalties.
SECTION 601.65. Liability of citrus fruit dealers.
SECTION 601.66. Complaints of violations by citrus fruit dealers; procedure; bond distribution; court action on bond.
SECTION 601.67. Disciplinary action by Department of Agriculture against citrus fruit dealers.
SECTION 601.671. Appropriation of fines collected.
SECTION 601.68. Investigation of violations.
SECTION 601.69. Records to be kept by citrus fruit dealers.
SECTION 601.70. Inspection of records by Department of Agriculture.
SECTION 601.701. Penalty for failure to keep records.
SECTION 601.72. Penalties for violations.
SECTION 601.73. Additional methods of enforcement.
SECTION 601.731. Transporting citrus on highways; name and dealer designation on vehicles; load identification; penalty.
SECTION 601.74. Fees for licensing and analysis of processing materials.
SECTION 601.76. Manufacturer to furnish formula and other information.
SECTION 601.79. To color grapefruit and tangerines prohibited.
SECTION 601.80. Unlawful to use uncertified coloring matter.
SECTION 601.85. Standard shipping box for fresh fruit.
SECTION 601.86. Standard field boxes for fresh citrus fruit.
SECTION 601.88. Oversized boxes to be stamped.
SECTION 601.89. Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing.
SECTION 601.91. Unlawful to sell, transport, prepare, receive, or deliver freeze-damaged citrus.
SECTION 601.92. Use of arsenic in connection with citrus.
SECTION 601.93. Sale of citrus containing arsenic.
SECTION 601.94. Fruit containing arsenic; powers of inspection.
SECTION 601.95. Seizure of citrus fruit containing arsenic.
SECTION 601.96. Seized fruit; taking samples for analysis.
SECTION 601.97. Destruction of certain fruit containing arsenic.
SECTION 601.98. Shipment, sale, or offer of imported citrus fruit or citrus products.
SECTION 601.99. Unlawful to misbrand wrappers or packages containing citrus fruit.
SECTION 601.9901. Certificates of inspection; form.
SECTION 601.9902. Payment of salaries and expenses; Department of Citrus.
SECTION 601.9903. Annual report of Department of Citrus.
SECTION 601.99035. Annual travel report of Department of Citrus.
SECTION 601.99036. Approval of specified salary changes.
SECTION 601.9904. Frozen citrus juices; rules of Department of Citrus.
SECTION 601.9908. Canned tangerine juice; standards; labeling.
SECTION 601.9910. Legislative findings of fact; strict enforcement of maturity standard in public interest.
SECTION 601.9911. Fruit may be sold or transported direct from producer.
SECTION 601.9912. Penalties.
SECTION 601.9918. Rules related to issuance and use of symbols.
SECTION 601.992. Collection of dues and other payments on behalf of certain nonprofit corporations engaged in market news and grower education.