§ 1004.85 - Assessment for order administration.

As his pro rata share of the expense of administration, each handler shall pay to the market administrator on or before the 20th day after the end of the month, 4 cents per hundredweight, or such lesser amount as the Secretary may prescribe with respect to milk handled during the month as follows:

(a) Each handler (excluding a cooperative association in its capacity as a handler pursuant to § 1004.9(c), and a cooperative association as the operator of a pool plant with respect to milk transferred in bulk to a pool plant) with respect to the handler's receipts of producer milk (including such handler's own-farm production, milk received from a cooperative association pursuant to § 1004.9(c), and milk transferred in bulk from a pool plant owned and operated by a cooperative association) and receipts of concentrated fluid milk products from unregulated supply plants and receipts of nonfluid milk products assigned to Class I use pursuant to § 1004.43(e) and other source milk allocated to Class I pursuant to § 1004.44(a)(8) and (a)(12) and the corresponding step of § 1004.44(b), except such other source milk that is excluded from the computations pursuant to § 1004.60(f) and (h);

(b) Each handler in his capacity as the operator of a partially regulated distributing plant with respect to his route disposition in the marketing area in excess of his receipts of Class I milk from pool plants, cooperative associations as handlers pursuant to § 1004.9(b), and other order plants assigned to such disposition.