Section 61415.3.

If a handler fails to pay for manufacturing milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in this chapter, the director may assess a penalty for each payment date that the producers were not fully paid. Any penalty assessed shall be a minimum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each payment date. If the amount not properly paid is more than forty thousand dollars ($40,000), the penalty assessed shall be five thousand dollars ($5,000) or one-fourth of 1 percent of the amount not properly paid, whichever is less.

(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1074, Sec. 10. Effective September 24, 1987.)