FV-73 Marketing Agreement (CA Dates)

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OMS No. 0581-0178

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

MARKETING AGREEMENT, AS FURTHER AMENDED, REGULATING
THE HANDLING OF DOMESTIC DATES PRODUCED OR PACKED IN
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
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 continuing the
marketing agreement regulating the handling of domestic dates produced or packed in Riverside County, California; 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 987.1 to 987.84, inclusive, of the order and as further continued by the order annexed to
and made a part of the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to a proposed marketing agreement and order
regulating the handling of domestic dates produced or packed in Riverside County, California, 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 987.85 Countemarts.
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 987.86 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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S~ction 987.87 Order with Marketinq Aqreement.
Each signatory handler hereby requests the Secretary to issue, pursuant to the Act, an order providing for regulating
the handling of domestic dates in the same manner as is provided in this agreement.

The undersigned hereby authorizes the Deputy Administrator or Associate 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.
By:
(Firm Name)

(Mailing Address)

(Signature)

(Title)

(City, State, and ZIP Code)

(Date of Execution)

(Corporate Seal: if none, so state)

11fone ofthe 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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