To provide the director with accurate and reliable information, if that information is not then on file in the department, regarding the persons that may be directly affected by the provisions of any proposed marketing order for any commodity, the director shall, if he or she has reason to believe that the issuance of a marketing order will tend to effectuate the declared policy of this chapter, or upon receipt of a written application for a hearing pursuant to Section 58771, notify all handlers of the commodity to file with the director, within 30 days from the last date of the notice, a report, properly certified, which shows all of the following:

(a) The correct name and address of such handler.

(b) The quantities of the commodity that are affected by the proposed marketing order which were handled by the handler in the marketing season next preceding the filing of the report or the current marketing season if the harvest and delivery of the commodity to handlers is complete.

(c) The correct name and address of every producer of the commodity, that may be directly affected by the proposed marketing order, from whom the handler received the commodity in the marketing season next preceding the filing of the report or the current marketing season if the harvest and delivery of the commodity to handlers is complete.

(d) The director may also require all handlers to report quantities of the commodity which were received by the handler from each producer in the marketing season next preceding the filing of the report or the current marketing season if the harvest and delivery of the commodity to handlers is complete.

(Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 677, Sec. 1.)