Florida Statute 601.03 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXV
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMAL INDUSTRY

Chapter 601
FLORIDA CITRUS CODE

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F.S. 601.03

601.03 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:

(1) “Additive” means any foreign substance which, when added to any citrus fruit juice, will change the amount of total soluble solids or anhydrous citric acid therein, or the color or taste thereof, or act as an artificial preservative thereof.

(2) “Agent” means any person who, on behalf of any citrus fruit dealer, negotiates the consignment, purchase, or sale of citrus fruit, or weighs citrus fruit so that the weight thereof may be used in computing the amount to be paid therefor.

(3) “Broker” means any person engaged in the business of negotiating the sale or purchase of citrus fruit for others.

(4) “Canned products” means juices, segments, or sections of citrus fruits sealed in hermetically sealed containers at a concentration that does not exceed 20 degrees Brix and sufficiently processed by heat to ensure preservation of the product, and when regulated by the department, these same products packed in any other manner or in any other type container.

(5) “Canning plant” means any building, structure, or place where citrus fruit or the juice thereof is canned or prepared for canning at a concentration that does not exceed 20 degrees Brix for market or shipment.

(6) “Cash buyer” means any person who purchases citrus fruit in this state from the producer for the purpose of resale.

(7) “Citrus fruit” means all varieties and regulated hybrids of citrus fruit and also means processed citrus products containing 20 percent or more citrus fruit or citrus fruit juice. The term does not, for purposes of this chapter, mean limes, lemons, marmalade, jellies, preserves, candies, or citrus hybrids for which specific standards have not been established by the department.

(8) “Citrus fruit dealer” means any consignor, commission merchant, consignment shipper, cash buyer, broker, association, cooperative association, express or gift fruit shipper, or person who in any manner makes or attempts to make money or other thing of value on citrus fruit in any manner whatsoever, other than of growing or producing citrus fruit. The term does not include retail establishments whose sales are direct to consumers and not for resale or persons or firms trading solely in citrus futures contracts on a regulated commodity exchange.

(9) “Citrus hybrids” includes, but is not limited to, hybrids between or among sour orange (C. aurantium), pummelo (C. grandis), lemon (C. limon), lime (C. aurantifolia), citron (C. medica), grapefruit (C. paradisi), tangerine or mandarin orange (C. reticulata), sweet orange (C. sinensis), tangelo (C. reticulata x C. paradisi or C. grandis), tangor (C. reticulata x C. sinensis), kumquat (Fortunella, species), trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata), and varieties of these species.

(10) “Citrus producing area” means that part or parts of the state in which citrus fruit is grown or produced.

(11) “Color-add” or “color-added” means the application or use of any coloring matter to any citrus fruit.

(12) “Coloring matter” means any dye, or any liquid or concentrate or material containing a dye or materials that react to form a dye, used or intended to be used for the purpose of enhancing the color of citrus fruit by the addition of artificial color to the peel thereof. The term does not include any process or treatment of fruit that merely brings out or accelerates the natural color of the fruit.

(13) “Commission” means the Florida Citrus Commission as head of the department.

(14) “Commission merchant” means any person engaged in the business of receiving any citrus fruit for sale on commission for or on behalf of another.

(15) “Concentrated products” means:

(a) Frozen citrus fruit juice that has a concentration that exceeds 20 degrees Brix and is kept at a sufficiently freezing temperature to ensure preservation of the product; or

(b) Citrus fruit juice that is sealed in hermetically sealed containers at a concentration that exceeds 20 degrees Brix and is sufficiently processed by heat to ensure preservation of the product.

(16) “Concentrating plant” means any building, structure, or place where citrus fruit is canned, frozen, or prepared for canning or freezing at a concentration that exceeds 20 degrees Brix for market or shipment.

(17) “Consignment shipper” means any person who contracts with the producer of citrus fruit for the marketing thereof for the sole account and risk of such producer and who agrees to pay such producer the net proceeds derived from such sale.

(18) “Consignor” means any person, other than a producer, who ships or delivers to any commission merchant or dealer any citrus fruit for handling, sale, or resale.

(19) “Degreening room” means any room or place where citrus fruit is placed, with or without the use of heat or any gas, for the purpose of bringing out the natural color of the fruit.

(20) “Department” means the Department of Citrus.

(21) “Department of Agriculture” means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

(22) “Express or gift fruit shipper” means any person having an established place of business who ships or delivers for transportation in any manner citrus fruit to a consumer and not for the purpose of resale.

(23) “Fresh fruit juice distributor” means any person extracting and preparing for market or shipment any citrus fruit juice in fresh form.

(24) “Grapefruit” means the fruit Citrus paradisi Macf., commonly called grapefruit. The term includes the white, red, and pink meated varieties of grapefruit.

(25) “Handler” means any person engaged within this state in the business of distributing citrus fruit in the primary channel of trade or any person engaged as a processor in the business of processing citrus fruit.

(26) “Lemons” or “rough lemons” means the acid lemons of Citrus limon, including the varieties eureka, genoa, wheatley, amerfo, belair, and villafranca of the Eureka group; varieties bonnie brae, kennedy, lisbon, messer, messina, and sicily of the Lisbon group; varieties meyer, cuban, ponderosa, and rough of the Anomalous group; varieties dorshapo and millsweet of the Sweet Lemon group; and other varieties not included in this subsection, such as everbearing, palestine sweet, perrine, and spheriola.

(27) “Manufacturer” means any person who manufactures, sells or offers for sale, or licenses or offers for license for use any coloring matter, or any soaps, oils, waxes, gases, gas-forming material, or other similar compositions, or the component parts thereof on or in the processing of citrus fruits.

(28) “Oranges” means the fruit Citrus sinensis Osbeck, commonly called sweet oranges.

(29) “Packinghouse” means any building, structure, or place where citrus fruit is packed or otherwise prepared for market or shipment in fresh form.

(30) “Person” means any natural person, partnership, association, corporation, trust, estate, or other legal entity.

(31) “Primary channel of trade” means the routes through which citrus fruit is marketed. Citrus fruit is deemed to be delivered into the primary channel of trade when it is sold or delivered for shipment in fresh form or when it is received and accepted at a canning, concentrating, or processing plant for canning, concentrating, or processing.

(32) “Processor” means any person engaged within this state in the business of canning, concentrating, or otherwise processing citrus fruit for market other than for shipment in fresh fruit form.

(33) “Producer” means any person growing or producing citrus in this state for market.

(34) “Ship” or “shipping” means to move, or cause to be moved, citrus fruit or the canned or concentrated products thereof in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce by rail, truck, boat, airplane, or any other means.

(35) “Shipper” means any person engaged in shipping, or causing to be shipped, citrus fruit or the canned or concentrated products thereof in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce, whether as owner, agent, or otherwise.

(36) “Shipping season” means that period beginning August 1 of one year and ending July 31 of the following year.

(37) “Sour or bitter oranges” means the fruit of Citrus aurantium L. and contains several subspecies. Among the most important are varieties african, brazilian, rubidoux, and standard of the Normal group; varieties daidai, goleta, and bouquet of the Aberrant group; variety chinooto of the Myrtifolia group; and varieties bittersweet and paraguay of the Bittersweet group.

(38) “Standard-packed box” means 13/5 bushels of citrus fruit, whether in bulk or containers.

(39) “Tangerines” means the fruit Citrus reticulata Blanco, commonly called tangerines.

History.—s. 3, ch. 25149, 1949; ss. 1-5, ch. 26492, 1951; s. 2, ch. 29757, 1955; ss. 1-8, ch. 57-28; s. 1, ch. 59-12; s. 1, ch. 59-16; ss. 1-3, ch. 59-20; ss. 1, 2, ch. 61-91; s. 1, ch. 63-71; s. 1, ch. 65-85; s. 5, ch. 67-220; ss. 14, 29, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 6, ch. 71-185; ss. 1-3, 22, ch. 71-186; s. 256, ch. 71-377; s. 1, ch. 73-13; s. 1, ch. 76-8; s. 5, ch. 2012-182; s. 95, ch. 2013-15.

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Cases Citing Statute 601.03

Total Results: 20

F.V. de Araujo S.A. Madeiras, Agricultora, Industria e Comercio v. Dantzler Lumber & Export Co.

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2024-07-10

Snippet: hearing regarding recognition. See § 55.601(3), Fla. Stat. If no objections are filed

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases - Report No. 19-04

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2020-01-23

Snippet: and all the other evidence in the case. [601.3] Some witnesses testified in Spanish during this

Talley v. State

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2019-01-09

Citation: 260 So. 3d 562

Snippet: inferred from the evidence.” Giralt, 935 So. 2d at 601. 3 Talley also claims the trial court erred in

In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases-Report No. 17-03.

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2018-02-01

Citation: 236 So. 3d 919

Snippet: and all the other evidence in the case. [601.3] Some witnesses testified in Spanish during this

Florida A&M University Board of Trustees v. Justin Bruno

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2016-08-15

Citation: 198 So. 3d 1040, 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 12228, 2016 WL 4268260

Snippet: election process, See FAMU Student Body Stat, § 601.3. 4 . Article V, section 5 of the

Kareem Daniel Farrell v. State of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2015-05-13

Citation: 186 So. 3d 1046, 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 7069

Snippet: Charles W. Ehrhardt, Florida Evidence § 702.5, at 601-03 (2001)). See also Cheshire v. State, 568 So.2d

Spellman v. Independent Bankers' Bank of Florida

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2014-08-08

Citation: 161 So. 3d 505, 84 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 333, 2014 Fla. App. LEXIS 12143, 2014 WL 3871264

Snippet: cumulative and may be exercised simultaneously. § 679.601(3), Fla. Stat. (2009). These provisions allow a secured

Wheeler v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2013-06-27

Citation: 124 So. 3d 865, 2013 WL 3214434

Snippet: could before they got him. Wheeler, 4 So.3d at 601-03 (footnote omitted). The jury recommended a sentence

In re Standard Jury Instructions—Contract & Business Cases

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2013-06-06

Citation: 116 So. 3d 284, 2013 WL 2435441

Snippet: trial, this instruction should be used in lieu of 601.3. See United States v. Franco, 136 F.3d 622, 626

In re Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Case—Report No. 12-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2013-05-30

Citation: 130 So. 3d 596, 2013 WL 2349287

Snippet: expressed, and all the other evidence in the case. [601.3] Some witnesses testified in Spanish during this

In re Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2013-05-23

Citation: 115 So. 3d 208, 2013 WL 2248678

Snippet: expressed, and all the other evidence in the case. [601.3] Some witnesses testified in Spanish during this

LAURITSEN v. Wallace

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2011-04-01

Citation: 67 So. 3d 285, 2011 Fla. App. LEXIS 4666, 2011 WL 1195873

Snippet: wife were determined to be simultaneous. § 732.601(3), Fla. Stat. (2007). The decedent's will, which

In Re Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases—Report No. 2010-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2010-10-21

Citation: 52 So. 3d 595, 35 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 602, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 1780, 2010 WL 4117070

Snippet: expressed, and all the other evidence in the case. [601.3] Some witnesses testified in Spanish during this

In Re Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases—Report No. 09-01

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2010-03-04

Citation: 35 So. 3d 666, 35 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 149, 2010 Fla. LEXIS 302

Snippet: trial, this instruction should be used in lieu of 601.3. See United States v. Franco, 136 F.3d 622, 626

Roberts v. State

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2002-12-05

Citation: 840 So. 2d 962, 2002 WL 31719355

Snippet: conflicting opinion did testify. 750 So.2d at 601. [3] Roberts also raised a number of Brady claims

FM v. Dept. of Children & Families

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2002-02-20

Citation: 807 So. 2d 200, 2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 1795, 2002 WL 237669

Snippet: possible for the child to return safely home." § 39.601(3)(a), Fla. Stat. (2000). Here, the services provided

Nadd v. Le Credit Lyonnais, SA

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2001-11-21

Citation: 804 So. 2d 1226, 26 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 769, 2001 Fla. LEXIS 2274, 2001 WL 1472623

Snippet: a hearing regarding recognition. See *1229 § 55.601(3), Fla. Stat. If no objections are filed within thirty

Flores v. Miami-Dade County

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2001-06-13

Citation: 787 So. 2d 955, 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 8068

Snippet: Charles W. Ehrhardt, Florida Evidence § 702.5, at 601-03 (2001) (footnotes omitted). The doctor's sharing

MW v. Davis

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2000-05-04

Citation: 756 So. 2d 90, 2000 WL 551038

Snippet: proximity as possible to the child's home." § 39.601(3)(b), (e) (emphasis supplied).[28] In addition to

MW v. Davis

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1999-01-06

Citation: 722 So. 2d 966, 1999 WL 2801

Snippet: ongoing relationship with the child. Section 39.601(3)(b), Florida Statutes (Supp.1998) requires the Department