§ 2882 — Exemptions from filing bond

Vermont § 2882

• Jurisdiction: Vermont
• Title 6: Title 6: Agriculture
• Ch. 157: Chapter 157: Bonds

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(a) A milk cooperative or a nonprofit cooperative association organized under Vermont law or similar laws in other states shall not be required to furnish surety as provided in section 2881 of this title for payments made to a milk cooperative or to a producer who is a member of a milk cooperative.
(b) A handler who does not purchase milk from Vermont producers or milk cooperatives either directly or through a marketing service owned by one or more cooperatives shall not be required to furnish surety as provided under section 2881 of this title.
(c) A handler who pays for milk in advance or at the time of delivery shall not be required to furnish surety as provided under section 2881 of this title. Every producer, or milk cooperative either directly or through a marketing service owned by the cooperatives, selling milk to handlers who pay for milk in advance or at the time of delivery shall, on July 1 of each year, notify the Secretary in writing of the identity of each handler and shall promptly notify the Secretary in writing of any changes to the most recent notification.
(d) A handler who purchases fewer than 150,000 pounds of milk per month from a milk cooperative, either directly or through a marketing service owned by one or more cooperatives, shall not be required to furnish surety as provided under section 2881 of this title.

Legislative History

(Added 1965, No. 175, § 25; amended 2009, No. 48, § 6, eff. May 28, 2009; 2011, No. 39, § 6, eff. May 19, 2011.)