“Handler” means any person who engages in the operation of selling or marketing navel oranges for fresh consumption which he or she has produced, purchased, or acquired from a producer, or which he or she is marketing on behalf of a producer, whether as owner, agent, employee, or broker or otherwise. It does not, however, include a retailer, except a retailer who purchases or acquires from, or handles on behalf of, any producer navel oranges which were not previously subject to regulation by the commission.
(Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 494, Sec. 1. Effective July 28, 1983.)