§ 1040.9 - Handler.

Handler means:

(a) Any person who operates a pool plant;

(b) Any cooperative association with respect to producer milk diverted in accordance with § 1040.13 for the account of such association;

(c) Any cooperative association with respect to milk it receives for its account from the farm of a producer in a tank truck owned and operated by, or under the control of, such association, for delivery to a pool plant (such milk shall be considered as having been received by such cooperative association at a location identical to that of the pool plant to which it is delivered);

(d) Any person who operates a partially regulated distributing plant;

(e) Any producer-handler; and

(f) Any person in his capacity as the operator of an other order plant from which fluid milk products are distributed on routes in the marketing area or shipped to a pool plant.