FV-169 Marketing Agreement (CA Dried Prunes)

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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 DRIED PRUNES PRODUCED IN 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 dried prunes produced in 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 993.1 through 993.97, 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 with respect to a proposed marketing

agreement and order regulating the handling of dried prunes produced in 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 993.98 Special Agreement Provisions.
(a) 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.

(b) 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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(c) Order with MarketinaAareement.
Each signatory handler hereby requests the Secretary to issue, pursuant to the Act, an order providingfor regulating
the handling of dried prunes produced in California 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 provisionsof the Act, for the purpose and subject to
the limitationstherein 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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