§ 1079.9 - Handler.

Handler means:

(a) Any person in his capacity as the operator of a pool plant;

(b) Any cooperative association with respect to milk of a producer that is diverted for the account of the cooperative association from a pool plant in accordance with § 1079.13;

(c) Any cooperative association with respect to milk that it receives for its account from the farm of a producer for delivery to a pool plant in a tank truck owned and operated by, or under the control of, such cooperative association. If the milk is delivered to the pool plant of another handler, the plant operator may be the handler for such milk if both the cooperative association and the operator of the pool plant notify the market administrator prior to the time that such milk is delivered to the pool plant that the plant operator will purchase such milk on the basis of weights determined from its measurements at the farm and butterfat tests determined from farm bulk tank samples. Milk for which the cooperative is the handler pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed to have been received by the cooperative at the location of the pool plant to which such milk is delivered;

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

(e) Any person who is a producer-handler;

(f) Any person who operates an other order plant described in § 1079.7(d); and

(g) Any person who operates an unregulated supply plant.