Senate Bill 1004

    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1004

    By Senator Bronson





    18-669B-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to rulemaking authority with

  3         respect to the regulation of the citrus

  4         industry; amending s. 601.10, F.S.; requiring

  5         the Department of Citrus to provide a list of

  6         forms that it uses; amending s. 601.61, F.S.,

  7         relating to the bond requirements of citrus

  8         fruit dealers; allowing the Florida Citrus

  9         Commission to prescribe certain terms of

10         producer contracts; providing an effective

11         date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Subsection (15) is added to section 601.10,

16  Florida Statutes, to read:

17         601.10  Powers of the Department of Citrus.--The

18  Department of Citrus shall have and shall exercise such

19  general and specific powers as are delegated to it by this

20  chapter and other statutes of the state, which powers shall

21  include, but shall not be confined to, the following:

22         (15)  To provide by rule a list of forms used in

23  conducting its business.

24         Section 2.  Subsection (2) of section 601.61, Florida

25  Statutes, is amended to read:

26         601.61  Bond requirements of citrus fruit dealers.--

27         (2)  Said bond shall be in the form approved by the

28  Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and shall be

29  conditioned as provided in s. 601.66(9), and also to fully

30  comply with the terms and conditions of all contracts, verbal

31  or written, made by the citrus fruit dealer with producers or

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                  SB 1004
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  1  with other citrus fruit dealers, relative to the purchasing,

  2  handling, sale, and accounting of purchases and sales of

  3  citrus fruit, and upon the dealer accounting for the proceeds

  4  from, and paying for, any citrus fruit purchased or contracted

  5  for, in accordance with the terms of the contracts with

  6  producers, and upon the dealer accounting for any advance

  7  payments or deposits made, and delivering all citrus fruit

  8  contracted for, in accordance with the terms of the contracts

  9  with other citrus fruit dealers. The commission may prescribe

10  by rule that such a producer contract contain information that

11  it considers necessary to protect the producer from deceptive

12  practices. For purposes of this chapter, every such contract

13  shall be conclusively deemed to have been made and entered

14  into during the shipping season in which the delivery of fruit

15  into the primary channel of trade is made.

16         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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19                          SENATE SUMMARY

20    Requires the Department of Citrus to provide, by rule, a
      list of the forms that it uses in conducting its
21    business. Allows the Florida Citrus Commission to
      prescribe by rule that a producer contract must contain
22    information that the commission considers necessary for
      the protection of the producer from deceptive practices.
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