7 CFR 1216.12
§ 1216.12 Handle.
United States · 7 CFR — Agriculture · Status: effective
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- 7 CFR 1216.12, § 1216.12 Handle, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/24405
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Full text
Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning in-shell, or crushing of peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned in-shell or shelled peanuts, or other activity causing peanuts to enter the current of commerce: Provided, that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s) and: Provided further, that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.