M-35 - Farm Products Marketing Act

Section 91.12 Disposition versions

1988-06-17

91.12. The Board may, of its own initiative or at the request of a producers’ board or certified association, by order,

(a)  require all or some of the persons who buy, hold or receive a farm product or all or some of the producers belonging to an association marketing such a product to withhold, from amounts to be paid or remitted to a producer of that product, all or part of the contributions payable by that producer to the producers’ board or certified association, as the case may be, entrusted with the administration of a fund and to remit to the board or association, on behalf of the producer, the amounts so withheld;

(b)  fix the amount to be withheld by any person who buys, holds or receives a farm product or by an association of producers marketing such a product;

(c)  determine the information that all or some of the persons who buy, hold or receive a farm product or all or some of the producers belonging to an association marketing such a product must furnish as to the amounts so withheld;

(d)  fix the time when the amounts withheld must be remitted;

(e)  determine the terms, conditions and procedure applicable to the withholding and remittance.

Any failure to comply with an order of the Board renders all or some of the buyers, holders or receivers or all or some of the producers belonging to an association liable to the board or certified association for the amount of the contributions which they should have withheld.

1988, c. 28, s. 2.