---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1216.12"
title: "7"
number: "1216.12"
heading: "Handle."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1216.12"
---

# §1216.12. Handle.


Handle means to engage in the receiving or acquiring, cleaning and shelling, cleaning in-shell, or crushing of peanuts and in the shipment (except as a common or contract carrier of peanuts owned by another) or sale of cleaned in-shell or shelled peanuts, or other activity causing peanuts to enter the current of commerce: Provided, that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by a producer to a handler or to an intermediary person engaged in delivering peanuts to handler(s) and: Provided further, that this term does not include sales or deliveries of peanuts by such intermediary person(s) to a handler.


## Notes

### Source

Source: 64 FR 41256, July 29, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7411-7425 and 7 U.S.C. 7401.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 20105, Apr. 23, 1999, unless otherwise noted.