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2023 Florida Statutes (Including 2023C)
                        Chapter 601
FLORIDA CITRUS CODE Entire Chapter
    
    FLORIDA CITRUS CODE Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 601
                FLORIDA CITRUS CODE
            
                        601.01
                        
                    Short title.
                    
                        601.02
                        
                    Purposes.
                    
                        601.03
                        
                    Definitions.
                    
                        601.04
                        
                    Florida Citrus Commission; creation and membership.
                    
                        601.041
                        
                    The Friends of Florida Citrus Program; advisory council.
                    
                        601.045
                        
                    Commission meetings; report of department’s internal auditor.
                    
                        601.05
                        
                    Department of Citrus a body corporate.
                    
                        601.06
                        
                    Compensation and expenses of commission members.
                    
                        601.07
                        
                    Location of executive offices.
                    
                        601.08
                        
                    Authenticated copies of commission records as evidence.
                    
                        601.09
                        
                    Citrus districts.
                    
                        601.091
                        
                    Florida SunRidge, Indian River, and Gulf production areas, boundaries and designation.
                    
                        601.10
                        
                    Powers of the Department of Citrus.
                    
                        601.101
                        
                    Ownership of rights under patent and trademark laws developed or acquired under this chapter.
                    
                        601.11
                        
                    Department of Citrus; power to establish standards; rulemaking authority.
                    
                        601.111
                        
                    Maturity standards; modification by emergency rule.
                    
                        601.13
                        
                    Citrus research; administration by Department of Citrus; appropriation.
                    
                        601.15
                        
                    Advertising campaign; methods of conducting; assessments; emergency reserve fund; citrus research.
                    
                        601.152
                        
                    Special marketing orders.
                    
                        601.155
                        
                    Equalizing assessment; credit; exemption.
                    
                        601.24
                        
                    Department of Citrus to prescribe methods of testing and grading.
                    
                        601.25
                        
                    Determination of soluble solids and acid.
                    
                        601.27
                        
                    Department of Agriculture; citrus inspectors.
                    
                        601.28
                        
                    Inspection fees.
                    
                        601.281
                        
                    Road guard fees.
                    
                        601.29
                        
                    Powers of Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
                    
                        601.31
                        
                    Citrus inspectors; employment.
                    
                        601.32
                        
                    Compensation of inspectors.
                    
                        601.33
                        
                    Interference with inspectors.
                    
                        601.34
                        
                    Duties of law enforcement officers.
                    
                        601.35
                        
                    Disputes as to quality, etc.; procedure.
                    
                        601.36
                        
                    Inspection information required when two or more lots of fruit run simultaneously.
                    
                        601.37
                        
                    Unlawful acts of inspectors.
                    
                        601.38
                        
                    Citrus inspectors; authority.
                    
                        601.39
                        
                    Special inspectors.
                    
                        601.40
                        
                    Registration of citrus packinghouses, processing plants with Department of Agriculture.
                    
                        601.41
                        
                    Operation without registration unlawful.
                    
                        601.42
                        
                    Revocation of registration.
                    
                        601.43
                        
                    Immature and unfit citrus fruit; individual sampling.
                    
                        601.44
                        
                    Destruction of immature fruit.
                    
                        601.45
                        
                    Grading of fresh citrus fruit.
                    
                        601.46
                        
                    Condition precedent to sale of citrus fruit.
                    
                        601.461
                        
                    Falsification of weights; penalty.
                    
                        601.47
                        
                    Condition precedent to processing citrus.
                    
                        601.471
                        
                    Definition of "canned or concentrated citrus fruit products" expanded.
                    
                        601.48
                        
                    Grading processed citrus products.
                    
                        601.49
                        
                    Condition precedent to selling processed citrus products.
                    
                        601.50
                        
                    Exemptions; sale or shipment of citrus or citrus products for certain purposes.
                    
                        601.501
                        
                    Charitable shipments exempt from assessments.
                    
                        601.51
                        
                    Certification required for shipment of citrus fruit or products.
                    
                        601.52
                        
                    Carriers not to accept fruit without evidence of payment of assessments and fees.
                    
                        601.53
                        
                    Unlawful to process unwholesome citrus.
                    
                        601.54
                        
                    Seizure of unwholesome fruit by Department of Agriculture’s agents.
                    
                        601.55
                        
                    Citrus fruit dealer; license required.
                    
                        601.56
                        
                    Application for dealers’ licenses; requirements.
                    
                        601.57
                        
                    Examination of application; approval of dealers’ licenses.
                    
                        601.58
                        
                    Application approval or disapproval.
                    
                        601.59
                        
                    Dealer’s license fee; agent’s registration fee.
                    
                        601.60
                        
                    Issuance of dealers’ licenses.
                    
                        601.601
                        
                    Registration of dealers’ agents.
                    
                        601.61
                        
                    Bond requirements of citrus fruit dealers.
                    
                        601.611
                        
                    Applicable law in event ch. 61-389 held invalid.
                    
                        601.64
                        
                    Citrus fruit dealers; unlawful acts.
                    
                        601.641
                        
                    Fraudulent representations, penalties.
                    
                        601.65
                        
                    Liability of citrus fruit dealers.
                    
                        601.66
                        
                    Complaints of violations by citrus fruit dealers; procedure; bond distribution; court action on bond.
                    
                        601.67
                        
                    Disciplinary action by Department of Agriculture against citrus fruit dealers.
                    
                        601.671
                        
                    Appropriation of fines collected.
                    
                        601.68
                        
                    Investigation of violations.
                    
                        601.69
                        
                    Records to be kept by citrus fruit dealers.
                    
                        601.70
                        
                    Inspection of records by Department of Agriculture.
                    
                        601.701
                        
                    Penalty for failure to keep records.
                    
                        601.72
                        
                    Penalties for violations.
                    
                        601.73
                        
                    Additional methods of enforcement.
                    
                        601.731
                        
                    Transporting citrus on highways; name and dealer designation on vehicles; load identification; penalty.
                    
                        601.74
                        
                    Fees for licensing and analysis of processing materials.
                    
                        601.79
                        
                    To color grapefruit and tangerines prohibited.
                    
                        601.80
                        
                    Unlawful to use uncertified coloring matter.
                    
                        601.85
                        
                    Standard shipping box for fresh fruit.
                    
                        601.86
                        
                    Standard field boxes for fresh citrus fruit.
                    
                        601.88
                        
                    Oversized boxes to be stamped.
                    
                        601.89
                        
                    Citrus fruit; when damaged by freezing.
                    
                        601.91
                        
                    Unlawful to sell, transport, prepare, receive, or deliver freeze-damaged citrus.
                    
                        601.92
                        
                    Use of arsenic in connection with citrus.
                    
                        601.93
                        
                    Sale of citrus containing arsenic.
                    
                        601.94
                        
                    Fruit containing arsenic; powers of inspection.
                    
                        601.95
                        
                    Seizure of citrus fruit containing arsenic.
                    
                        601.96
                        
                    Seized fruit; taking samples for analysis.
                    
                        601.97
                        
                    Destruction of certain fruit containing arsenic.
                    
                        601.98
                        
                    Shipment, sale, or offer of imported citrus fruit or citrus products.
                    
                        601.99
                        
                    Unlawful to misbrand wrappers or packages containing citrus fruit.
                    
                        601.9901
                        
                    Certificates of inspection; form.
                    
                        601.9902
                        
                    Payment of salaries and expenses; Department of Citrus.
                    
                        601.9903
                        
                    Annual report of Department of Citrus.
                    
                        601.99035
                        
                    Annual travel report of Department of Citrus.
                    
                        601.99036
                        
                    Approval of specified salary changes.
                    
                        601.9904
                        
                    Frozen citrus juices; rules of Department of Citrus.
                    
                        601.9908
                        
                    Canned tangerine juice; standards; labeling.
                    
                        601.9910
                        
                    Legislative findings of fact; strict enforcement of maturity standard in public interest.
                    
                        601.9911
                        
                    Fruit may be sold or transported direct from producer.
                    
                        601.9912
                        
                    Penalties.
                    
                        601.9918
                        
                    Rules related to issuance and use of symbols.
                    
                        601.992
                        
            Collection of dues and other payments on behalf of certain nonprofit corporations engaged in market news and grower education.