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producer" means any Maine milk producer located in Aroostook County | and or Washington County, and or that portion of Penobscot County | | north of and including the minor civil divisions of Medway, T.A.R. | 7 and Long A T.W.P. selling who sells to a dealer determined by the | commissioner to be marketing milk on the Maine market, or any | | agricultural cooperative that buys milk or handles milk for such a | | producer and sells it to such a dealer. |
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| | | Sec. F-29. 7 MRSA §3152-A, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 646, §3, | | is amended to read: |
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| | | 1. Exemption; pool payments. An agricultural cooperative | which that is a producer-dealer under section 3152, subsection | 10, shall be 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 which is a | producer-dealer 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 which that is a | | producer-dealer exceeds 5,000,000 pounds, the agricultural | cooperative which is a producer-dealer shall be considered the | dealer for purposes of this chapter for the amount of make | | payment into and redistributions out of the Maine Milk Pool in | accordance with this chapter with respect to that milk which that | | is in excess of 5,000,000 pounds. |
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| | | Sec. F-30. 7 MRSA §3153, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2001, c. 433, §1, is | | further amended to read: |
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| | | 2. Collections from dealers. Collections from dealers shall | | must be made as follows. |
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| | | A. Effective January 1, 2000, each Maine market dealer shall, on | | a monthly basis, calculate for its Maine market producers the | | amount of payment at the adjusted base minimum price that would | | be payable to its Maine market producers according to the price | | calculated using that dealer's utilization rate, referred to in | | this subsection as "the Maine sample payment amount," and the | | amount of payment that would be due its Maine market producers | | according to the price calculated using the applicable component | | prices and producer price differential for Suffolk County, | | Massachusetts for the northeast marketing area milk marketing | order., referred to in this subsection as "the comparable Boston | payment amount." Each Maine market dealer shall make an initial | payment using established minimum component prices and the | producer price differential for the northeast marketing area milk | marketing order for Suffolk |
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