§ 1036.12 - Producer.

(a) Producer means any person, except a producer-handler as defined in any order (including this part) issued pursuant to the Act, who produces milk for fluid consumption in compliance with the inspection requirements of a duly constituted health authority, which milk is received at a pool plant or diverted pursuant to § 1036.13 from a pool plant to a nonpool plant or another pool plant.

(b) “Producer” shall not include a person with respect to milk that is physically received at a pool plant as diverted milk from an other order plant if a Class II or Class III classification under this order is designated for such milk and it is subject to the pricing and pooling provisions of another order issued pursuant to the Act.