{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fac-52863","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAC § 52863","heading":"","body":"“Handlers of raw cotton fiber” or “merchant” means any person or organization that is primarily engaged in the business of buying and selling spot cotton or forward contract cotton.","path":["Food and Agricultural Code - FAC","DIVISION 18. FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS [52001. - 53564.]","CHAPTER 4. San Joaquin Valley Quality Cotton District [52851. - 52993.]","ARTICLE 2. Definitions [52861. - 52868.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"4090528edb842b38394987ac94f46da16cfb24c4480fff0726f692e06d9ea7f1","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fac-52862","next":"us-ca/fac-52864"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}