§ 244. Statement of policy and application of article.
1.This article\nis enacted in the exercise of the police power of the state and its\npurposes generally are to suppress and prevent unfair and fraudulent\npractices in the marketing within this state of farm products produced\ntherein and to safeguard the producers and dealers of this state in\ncertain marketing transactions relative to such farm products. This\narticle shall apply only to transactions concerning farm products\nproduced within this state, or concerning livestock produced outside the\nstate when such transactions are either entered into or attempted within\nthe state, and where such transactions involve a dealer doing business\nwithin this state. Farm products shipped from a point within this state\nshall be presumed
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§ 244. Statement of policy and application of article. 1. This article\nis enacted in the exercise of the police power of the state and its\npurposes generally are to suppress and prevent unfair and fraudulent\npractices in the marketing within this state of farm products produced\ntherein and to safeguard the producers and dealers of this state in\ncertain marketing transactions relative to such farm products. This\narticle shall apply only to transactions concerning farm products\nproduced within this state, or concerning livestock produced outside the\nstate when such transactions are either entered into or attempted within\nthe state, and where such transactions involve a dealer doing business\nwithin this state. Farm products shipped from a point within this state\nshall be presumed to have been produced within the state.\n 2. (a) This article shall not apply to the sale of farm products at\nauction held at the premises of the owner of said farm products and\nwhere said sales do not exceed one sale a year, nor to any agricultural\ncooperative corporation as defined in subdivision (a) of section one\nhundred eleven of the cooperative corporations law when receiving,\nprocessing, and marketing farm products of its producer members, nor to\npersons required to file and maintain a mandatory surety under the\nfederal packers and stockyards act with respect to their transactions\nregulated under that act.\n (b) The licensing, bonding and stated grape price provisions of this\narticle shall not apply to: (i) any person whose annual dealings in farm\nproducts do not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars; or (ii) any\nagricultural cooperative with respect to the receipt, processing and\nmarketing of grapes or grape products of its producer members or\nnon-members of such cooperative on the basis of their patronage,\nprovided, however, that the annual purchase of grape or grape products\nfrom non-members of such cooperative shall not exceed the sum of one\nhundred thousand dollars; or (iii) a charitable not-for-profit\norganization which receives for distribution donated farm salvage, as\ndefined in section two hundred seventeen of this chapter.\n