§ 1044.72 - Marketing services.

(a) Except as set forth in paragraph (b) of this section, each handler, in making payments pursuant to § 1044.70 for milk received from each producer (excluding milk of such handler's own production) at a plant not operated by a cooperative association of which such producer is a member, shall deduct 6 cents per hundredweight, or such amount not exceeding 6 cents per hundredweight, as the Secretary may prescribe, and on or before the 13th day after the end of each month shall pay such deductions to the market administrator. Such monies shall be used by the market administrator to verify weights, samples and tests of milk received from producers and to provide producers with market information, such services to be performed by the market administrator or by an agent engaged by and responsible to him.

(b) In the case of producers whose milk is received at a fluid milk plant not operated by a cooperative association of which such producers are members, and for whom a cooperative association is actually performing the services described in paragraph (a) of this section, as determined by the Secretary, each handler shall make, in lieu of the deductions specified in paragraph (a) of this section, such deductions from payments required pursuant to § 1044.70 as may be authorized by such producers, and pay such deductions on or before the 13th day after the end of the month to the cooperative association rendering such services of which such producers are members.

(c) In making payments to associated producers pursuant to the proviso of § 1044.70(d), the market administrator shall deduct the applicable amounts prescribed for producer milk in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section for such milk.