7 CFR § 1216.12 - Handle.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s1216.12"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 1216.12 - Handle."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "1216.12"
section_name: "Handle."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
part_number: "1216"
part_name: "PEANUT PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND INFORMATION ORDER"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 7411-7425 and 7 U.S.C. 7401."
regulatory_source: "64 FR 20105, Apr. 23, 1999, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1216"
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# 1216.12 Handle.

*Handle* means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning in-shell, or crushing of peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned in-shell or shelled peanuts, or other activity causing peanuts to enter the current of commerce: *Provided,* that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s) and: *Provided further,* that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.