§ 73258 Navel Orange Assessment Collection

• •Farmers who grow navel oranges have to pay a fee (assessment).
• •The first person who buys the oranges from the farmer takes the fee out of the payment to the farmer.
• •That buyer holds the fee money like a trustee until they give it to the commission (a group in charge).
• •The commission decides when and how the fee money should be paid to them.

A farmer sells navel oranges to a juice company.

The juice company buys the oranges but takes out a small fee from the money they pay the farmer. The juice company holds this fee and later sends it to the commission, just like the law says.