Section 146.9. Financing

Milk dealers and their affiliates, subsidiaries or representatives thereof may not provide financial accommodations for a wholesale customer by lending money to the customer, or by paying or guaranteeing the payment of any obligation of the customer, or by acting as a cosigner on a promissory note or other obligation of the customer, or by depositing money or collateral with a third party, person or organization which will lend money or extend credit to the customer. This section does not apply to transactions between grocery wholesalers and their subsidiaries, affiliates, franchisees or wholesale customers to the extent the transactions occur in the normal course of the grocery wholesaler’s business and are only incidentally related to acquisition or retention of the fluid milk business of the subsidiary, affiliate, franchisee or wholesale customer.