FV-96 915-Avocados Marketing Agreement/Handler Agreement

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

MARKETING AGREEMENT, AS FURTHER AMENDED, REGULATING
THE HANDliNG OF AVOCADOS GROWN IN SOUTH FLORIDA

The parties hereto, in order to effectuate the declared policy of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended
(Sections 1-19, 48 Stat 31, as amended; 7 U. S. C. 60 1~7 4), and in accordance with the rules of practice and procedwe effective thereunder
(7 CFR Part 9(0), desire to enter into this agreement further amending Marketing Agreement No. 143, regulating the handling of avocados
grown in South Florida; and each party hereto agrees that such handling of avocados shall be in conformity to, and in compliance with, the
terms and conditions of said marketing agreement, as hereby amended.

Such terms and conditions are as follows:

(1) The provisions of Sections 915.1 to 915.71, inclusive, of Marketing Order No. 915, as amended (7 CFR Part 915), 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, as amended, and order, as amended, regulating the handling of avocados grown in South Florida, plus the additional

provisions shall be, and hereby are, the terms and conditions hereof; and the specified provisions are hereby incorporated into this
agreement as if set forth in full herein. (2) The additional provisions are as follows:

Section 915.72 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 915.73 Additional Parties.
After the effective date hereof, any handler who has not previously executed this agreement may become a party to this agreement

if a counterpart hereof 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 915.74 Orderwitb

Marketin2 A2reement.

Each signatory handler favors and approves the issuance of an order by the Secretary regulating the handling of avocados in
the same manner as provided for in this agreement; and each signatory handler hereby requests the Secretary to issue, pursuant to the
Act, such an order.

Authorization to correct typographical errors.

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 agreement amending the 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:

1/

(Firm name)

(Signature)

(Mailing address)

(Corporate seal: if none, so state)

(Title)

Date:

11 If one 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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