Fla. Stat. § 601.01
Short title
This chapter may be cited as the “Florida Citrus Code.”
Florida Statutes Chapter 601 — FLORIDA CITRUS CODE
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Provisions
Fla. Stat. § 601.02
Purposes
This chapter is passed:(1) In the exercise of the police power to protect health and welfare and to stabilize and protect the citrus industry of the state.(2) Because the planting, growing, cultivating, spraying, pruning, and fertilizing of citrus groves and the harvesting, hauling, processing, packing, canning, and co…
Fla. Stat. § 601.03
Definitions
As used in this chapter, the term:(1) “Additive” means any foreign substance which, when added to any citrus fruit juice, will change the amount of total soluble solids or anhydrous citric acid therein, or the color or taste thereof, or act as an artificial preservative thereof.(2) “Agent” means any person who, on beha…
Fla. Stat. § 601.04
Florida Citrus Commission; creation and membership
(1)(a) There is created within the department the Florida Citrus Commission, which shall be composed of 11 members appointed by the Governor. Each member must be a resident of this state who is and has been actively engaged in the growing, growing and shipping, or growing and processing of citrus fruit in the state for…
Fla. Stat. § 601.041
The Friends of Florida Citrus Program; advisory council
(1) The Friends of Florida Citrus Program is established within the department to provide support and assistance for existing and future programs within the department.(a) Through the program, the department shall:1. Conduct programs and activities related to the protection and enhancement of the quality and reputation…
Fla. Stat. § 601.045
Commission meetings; report of department’s internal auditor
The commission shall include as an agenda item at each regularly scheduled meeting a report by the department’s internal auditor.
Fla. Stat. § 601.05
Department of Citrus a body corporate
The department shall be a body corporate, shall have power to contract and be contracted with, and shall have and possess all the powers of a body corporate for all purposes necessary for fully carrying out the provisions and requirements of this chapter. The department shall adopt a corporate seal with which it shall…
Fla. Stat. § 601.06
Compensation and expenses of commission members
Each member of the commission shall receive the sum of $25 per day for each day or fraction thereof spent while en route to or from, or in actual attendance at, regular or special meetings of the commission or meetings of committees of the commission, or in transacting other business authorized by the department in add…
Fla. Stat. § 601.07
Location of executive offices
The department’s executive offices shall be established and maintained at Bartow.
Fla. Stat. § 601.08
Authenticated copies of commission records as evidence
Copies of the proceedings, records, and acts of the commission and certificates purporting to relate the facts concerning such proceedings, records, and acts signed by the chair of the commission and authenticated by the department’s seal shall be prima facie evidence thereof in all the courts of the state.
Fla. Stat. § 601.09
Citrus districts
(1) For purposes of this chapter, the state is divided into six districts composed of:(a) Citrus District One: Collier, Hendry, and Lee Counties.(b) Citrus District Two: Charlotte and DeSoto Counties.(c) Citrus District Three: Glades, Highlands, and Okeechobee Counties.(d) Citrus District Four: Hardee, Hillsborough, Ma…
Fla. Stat. § 601.091
Florida SunRidge, Indian River, and Gulf production areas, boundaries and designation
(1) Unless otherwise specifically provided by final court order entered as a result of a legal proceeding instituted prior to July 1, 1976, only citrus fruit grown within the boundaries of a specified production area of this state, or processed citrus products prepared solely from such citrus fruit, may be identified,…
Fla. Stat. § 601.10
Powers of the Department of Citrus
The department shall have and shall exercise such general and specific powers as are delegated to it by this chapter and other statutes of the state, which powers shall include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) To adopt and periodically alter, rescind, modify, or amend all proper and necessary rules and orders…
Fla. Stat. § 601.101
Ownership of rights under patent and trademark laws developed or acquired under this chapter
Notwithstanding chapter 286, the legal title and every right, interest, claim, or demand of any kind in and to any patent, trademark, copyright, certification mark, or other right acquired under the patent and trademark laws of the United States, this state, or any foreign country, or the application therefor, or that…
Fla. Stat. § 601.11
Department of Citrus; power to establish standards; rulemaking authority
(1) The department shall have the power to:(a) Establish state grades and minimum maturity and quality standards not inconsistent with existing laws for citrus fruits and food products thereof containing 20 percent or more citrus or citrus juice, whether canned, concentrated, or otherwise processed, including standards…
Fla. Stat. § 601.111
Maturity standards; modification by emergency rule
(1) The Legislature finds that emergencies creating abnormal conditions in the state’s citrus industry, which may include, but are not limited to, unusual climatic conditions that produce unusual growing conditions of citrus fruit, freezes and hurricanes, or other acts of God that may affect a substantial part of the c…
Fla. Stat. § 601.13
Citrus research; administration by Department of Citrus; appropriation
(1) The department shall administer this section and prescribe suitable and reasonable rules to properly implement this section.(2) The department shall:(a)1. Conduct or cause to be conducted a thorough and comprehensive study of citrus fruit and the juices thereof:a. With respect to the quality and maturity of such fr…
Fla. Stat. § 601.15
Advertising campaign; methods of conducting; assessments; emergency reserve fund; citrus research
(1) The department shall administer this section, prescribe suitable and reasonable rules for the enforcement of this section, and administer the assessments levied and imposed under this section. All funds collected under this section and the interest accrued on such funds are consideration for a social contract betwe…
Fla. Stat. § 601.152
Special marketing orders
(1)(a) Whenever, upon its own motion or upon petition of any handler or producer or group or association of handlers or producers of citrus fruit, the commission, upon affirmative vote of seven of its members, determines:1. That the conduct of a special advertising and promotional marketing campaign or the conduct of m…
Fla. Stat. § 601.155
Equalizing assessment; credit; exemption
(1) The first person who exercises in this state the privilege of processing, reprocessing, blending, or mixing processed orange products or processed grapefruit products or the privilege of packaging or repackaging processed orange products or processed grapefruit products into retail or institutional size containers…
Fla. Stat. § 601.24
Department of Citrus to prescribe methods of testing and grading
The department shall adopt rules providing the manner and method to be used in drawing samples and the quantity to be used in testing and grading of citrus fruit and the canned and concentrated products thereof and shall provide specifications and methods for use of juice extractors to be used in extracting juice for s…
Fla. Stat. § 601.25
Determination of soluble solids and acid
The department shall adopt rules determining the method by which juice is tested for percentage of total soluble solids, the method by which juice is tested for acidity, and the method for testing fruit for juice content. Until the department determines such method by rule, the Brix hydrometer shall be used and the rea…
Fla. Stat. § 601.27
Department of Agriculture; citrus inspectors
The inspection in the state of all citrus fruit and the canned and concentrated products thereof, and the certifying as to grades and qualifications thereof, and the enforcement of all provisions of this chapter and rules and orders made pursuant to and under authority of this chapter shall be under the direction, supe…
Fla. Stat. § 601.28
Inspection fees
(1) There is hereby levied upon citrus fruit and processed citrus products the following inspection fees:(a) Upon each standard-packed box or equivalent, including hourly rate equivalent, thereof of citrus fruit inspected and certified for shipment in fresh form other than fruit on which a fee is imposed by paragraph (…
Fla. Stat. § 601.281
Road guard fees
There is hereby levied upon all citrus fruit upon which inspection fees are imposed by s. 601.28 an additional fee in the amount of 1 mill per standard-packed box or the equivalent thereof. This additional fee shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as citrus inspection fees imposed by s. 601.28. All…
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