Section 143.42. Transportation deductions

(a) —

(1) When a dealer provides the service of transporting the producer’s milk from the producer’s farm to a dealer’s plant of first receipt, the dealer may make reasonable deduction from the payment to the producer for such service based upon the dealer’s actual cost of transportation, a record of which shall be kept by the dealer. Such deductions shall not exceed 25¢ per hundredweight of milk transported.

(2) If a dealer is already deducting less than 25¢ per hundredweight for such transportation service on the effective date of this Chapter, he shall thereafter, not increase that deduction, unless such increase is authorized under subsection (b).

(b) The Board may by permit authorize a dealer to deduct in excess of 25¢ per hundredweight or increase his present transportation deduction charge for the transportation service if the dealer presents a written petition to the Board requesting the same and furnishes evidence that the services rendered, the conditions under which the transportation is effected and the costs incurred by the dealer in transporting milk on a particular route warrant an additional deduction.

(c) A dealer shall be deemed to have violated the provisions of this section if he engages in such violation directly or through an agent, employe, subsidiary, or affiliated company or corporation.