§ 59809 Pool Commodity Servicing Charges

• •A group (marketing program committee) can charge fees for handling and sorting products (like fruits or vegetables) in a shared pool.
• •The group owns all the products in the pool while they handle them.
• •The group must keep track of who owns what and pay producers fairly based on what they contributed.

A group of orange farmers puts their oranges together in one big pool to sell them.

The group can charge a small fee for sorting and selling the oranges. They own the oranges while they work with them, but they must keep track of how many oranges each farmer gave and pay them their fair share later.