Fla. Stat. § 506.19
Protection of owners of marked or branded field boxes or other specified containers; recordation
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2013
As of January 1, 2011
Any person being the owner of field boxes, pallets, crates, containers, or receptacles used in the general production, harvesting, packing, transportation, or marketing of fruits or vegetables or their byproducts in the state may adopt for his or her exclusive use and ownership a particular mark or brand to designate and distinguish his or her ownership thereof and may identify his or her field boxes, pallets, crates, containers, or receptacles so used with such mark or brand in the form of such combinations, initials, symbols, designs, or names as he or she may desire, by plainly and distinctly stamping, stenciling, painting, cutting, etching, or burning the same into or upon both ends or sides of such field boxes, pallets, crates, receptacles, or containers, and the presence of such identifying mark or brand on any field box, pallet, crate, container, or receptacle whenever a copy or description thereof shall have been filed and recorded in the office of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as herein provided for, shall, in any court and in any proceedings in this state, be prima facie evidence of the ownership of such boxes, pallets, crates, containers, or receptacles by the person in whose name such mark or brand may have been recorded, provided such mark or brand shall have been recorded with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as herein provided and shall bear the registered number herein provided for.
Any person who owns field boxes, pallets, crates, containers, or receptacles used in the general production, harvesting, packing, transportation, or marketing of fruits or vegetables or their byproducts or used for the storage or transport of agricultural or other commercial goods in this state may adopt for his or her exclusive use and ownership a mark or brand that designates or distinguishes his or her ownership and may identify his or her field boxes, pallets, crates, containers, or receptacles with a mark or brand using initials, symbols, designs, names, or any combination thereof, by plainly and distinctly stamping, stenciling, painting, cutting, etching, or burning the mark or brand into or upon both ends or sides of the field boxes, pallets, crates, receptacles, or containers. For purposes of any court or administrative proceeding, if a copy of the mark or brand is filed and recorded with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services pursuant to this chapter, the presence of this identifying mark or brand and the required registration number on any field box, pallet, crate, container, or receptacle is prima facie evidence of ownership.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.