(a) An assessment lien established under §80.017
of the Code attaches and is perfected 60 days after the date the Corporation
mails notice of an assessment due and owing by a citrus producer certifying
or reporting citrus production within an active pest management zone.
(b) The assessment lien attaches to citrus produced
and harvested from acreage subject to the assessment that assessment
year for the amount of the assessment which is "due and unpaid,"
as defined by §27.101 of this title (relating to Definitions),
for that assessment year.
(c) The assessment lien attaches only as to the first
buyer of citrus and subsequent buyers take the citrus free of the
assessment lien.
(d) A first buyer of citrus takes free of the assessment
lien if the buyer receives a compliance certificate or other acceptable
documentation as described in §27.404 of this title (relating
to Compliance Certificates).
(e) A first buyer of citrus also takes free of the
assessment lien if the buyer pays for the citrus with a check naming
the Corporation as a payee, or writes a separate check for the full
amount of the unpaid assessment naming the Corporation as the sole
payee.
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