---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 985.8"
title: "7"
number: "985.8"
heading: "Handle."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/985.8"
---

# §985.8. Handle.


Handle means to prepare oil for market, acquire oil from a producer, use oil commercially of own production, or sell, transport, or ship (except as a common or contract carrier of oil owned by another), or otherwise place oil into the current of commerce within the production area or from the area to points outside thereof: Provided, That:

- (a) The preparation for market of salable oil by producers who are not dealers or users,
- (b) The sale or transportation of salable oil by a producer to a handler of record within the production area, or
- (c) The transfer of excess oil by the producer to another producer to enable that producer to fill a deficiency in an annual allotment, or
- (d) The delivery of excess oil by the producer to the Committee or its designees, shall not be construed as handling.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 25040, Apr. 14, 1980, unless otherwise noted.