7 CFR § 983.27 - Proprietary capacity.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s983.27"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 983.27 - Proprietary capacity."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "983.27"
section_name: "Proprietary capacity."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; FRUITS, VEGETABLES, NUTS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
part_number: "983"
part_name: "PISTACHIOS GROWN IN CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEW MEXICO"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 601-674."
regulatory_source: "69 FR 17850, Apr. 4, 2004, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "983"
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# 983.27 Proprietary capacity.
*Proprietary capacity* means the capacity or interest of a producer or handler that, either directly or through one or more intermediaries, is a property owner together with all the appurtenant rights of an owner including the right to vote the interest in that capacity as an individual, a shareholder, member of a cooperative, partner, trustee or in any other capacity with respect to any other business unit.
[69 FR 17850, Apr. 4, 2004. Redesignated at 74 FR 56539, Nov. 2, 2009]