Washington Code 20.01.520 – Processor to have grower contracts and commitments on file
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By a date or dates prescribed prior to planting time by the director, the director, in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter, may require a processor to have filed with the director:
Terms Used In Washington Code 20.01.520
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Director: means the director of agriculture or a duly authorized representative. See Washington Code 20.01.010
- Processor: means any person, firm, company, or other organization that purchases agricultural crops from a consignor and that cans, freezes, dries, dehydrates, cooks, presses, powders, or otherwise processes those crops in any manner whatsoever for eventual resale. See Washington Code 20.01.010
(1) A copy of each contract the processor has entered into with a grower for the purchase of acres of crops and/or quantity of crops to be harvested during the present or next growing season; and
(2) A notice of each oral commitment the processor has given to growers for the purchase of acres of crops and/or quantity of crops to be harvested during the present or next growing season, and such notice shall disclose the amount of acres and/or quantity to which the processor has committed himself or herself.
NOTES:
Purpose—2011 c 103: See note following RCW 15.26.120.