Food and Agricultural Code section 77528
(a)
“Producer” means any person who owns timber in California immediately prior to felling, or the first person who acquires either the legal title or beneficial title to timber after it has been felled from land owned in California by a federal agency, or any other person, agency, or entity exempt from property taxation under federal or state law.(b)
For purposes of this chapter, a person in California that owns, controls, or is affiliated with any other person engaged in the selling or acquiring of timber in California in any marketing year shall be considered to be the producer of all timber sold or acquired by that person.(c)
“Producer” does not include any person who sells or acquires in any marketing year less than 5,000,000 board feet net Scribner Decimal C log rule, or the equivalent thereof as determined by the commission.
Source:
Section 77528, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=FAC§ionNum=77528.
(updated Oct. 11, 1993; accessed Jun. 30, 2025).