Whenever a mill pays a grower the money for his/her share in the proceeds of the canes delivered for grinding at said mill, based on a given price of sugar less the shipping and marketing expenses as provided by § 377 of this title and sells the sugar to a sugar broker intermediary or to any other buyer, the Department shall have jurisdiction over these transactions and the parties thereto and may determine, motu proprio, or at the request of a party, the fair and reasonable amount of shipping and marketing expenses as provided in § 377 of this title.
History —May 13, 1951, No. 426, p. 1138, added as § 8b on June 27, 1961, No. 125, p. 269, § 2; Aug. 5, 1993, No. 43, § 17, retroactive to July 1, 1993.