FV-137 Marketing Agreement (Hazelnuts)

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OMB No. 0581-0178

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UNrTED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL
MARKETING SERVICE
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE
PROGRAMS

MARKETING AGREEMENT, AS FURTHER AMENDED,
REGULATING THE HANDLING OF HAZELNUTS
GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON

The parties hereto, in order to effectuate the declared policy of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of
1937 (the Act), as amended (Secs. 1-19,48 Stat. 31, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 601-674), and in accordance with the

applicable rules of practice and procedure effective thereunder (7 CFR, Part 900), desire to enter into this agreement
further amending the marketing agreement regulating the handling of hazelnuts grown in Oregon and Washington; and
each party hereto agrees that such handling shall, from the effective date of this marketing agreement, be in conformity
to, and in compliance with, the provisions of said marketing agreement as hereby further amended.
The provisions of Sections 982.1 to 982.88, inclusive, of the order as amended and as further amended by the
order annexed to and made a part of the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) with respect to a proposed

marketing agreement and order regulating the handling of hazelnuts grown in Oregon and Washington, plus the
following additional provisions shall be, and the same hereby are, the terms and conditions hereof; and the specified
provisions of said annexed order are hereby incorporated into this marketing agreement as if set forth in full herein:

Section 982.89 Counterparts.
This agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts and when one counterpart is signed by the Secretary,
all such counterparts shall constitute, when taken together, one and the same instrument as if all signatures were
contained in one original.

Section 982.90 Additional parties.
After the effective date hereof, any handler may become a party to this agreement if a counterpart is executed

by such handler and delivered to the Secretary. This agreement shall take effect as to such new contracting party at the
time such counterpart is delivered to the Secretary, and the benefits, privileges, and immunities conferred by this

agreement shall then be effective as to such new contracting party.

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Section 982.91 Order with marketing agreement.
Each signatory handler hereby requests the Secretary to issue, pursuant to the Act, an order providing for

regulating the handling of hazelnuts grown in Oregon and Washington in the same manner as is provided in this
agreement.
The undersigned hereby authorizes the Deputy Administrator, or Acting Deputy Administrator, Fruit and

Vegetable Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service, United States Department of Agriculture, to correct any
typographical errors which may have been made in this marketing agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the contracting parties, acting under the provisions of the Act, for the purpose and
subject to the limitations therein contained, and not otherwise, have hereto set their respective signatures and seals.

(Firm Name)

(Mailing Address)

1

By:
(Signature)

(Title)

(City, State, and ZIP Code)

(Corporate Seal: if none, so state)

(Date of Execution)

11fone of the contracting parties to this agreement is a corporation, my signature constitutes certification that I have the
power granted to me by the Board of Directors to bind this corporation to the marketing agreement.

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