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1999 Florida Statutes
Registration of citrus packinghouses, processing plants with department.
601.40 Registration of citrus packinghouses, processing plants with department.--The owner, manager, or operator of each packinghouse, canning plant, or concentrating plant, at which it is intended to pack, can, concentrate, or prepare citrus fruit for market or transportation during the then-present or the next ensuing citrus fruit shipping season, shall register such packinghouse, canning plant, or concentrating plant and its location, shipping point, and post office with the Department of Agriculture not less than 10 days before packing, canning, concentrating, or otherwise preparing any citrus fruit or the canned or concentrated products thereof for sale or transportation in or at such packinghouse, canning plant, or concentrating plant; and she or he shall, in addition to such registration, give the said Department of Agriculture not less than 7 days' written notice of the date on which packing, canning, concentrating, or other preparation for sale or transportation of citrus fruit of the then-current or the next ensuing season's crop will be begun. The Department of Agriculture shall issue a certificate of registration to each such packinghouse, canning plant, or concentrating plant registering; provided, however, that no such certificate of registration shall be issued to any packinghouse, canning plant, or concentrating plant unless the operator thereof shall have first applied for and received her or his license as a citrus fruit dealer and furnished a bond as such citrus fruit dealer in accordance with law.
History.--s. 40, ch. 25149, 1949; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 7, ch. 71-185; s. 975, ch. 97-103.