(a)
Any association organized and operating pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to similar laws of any other state, the District of Columbia, or the United States, which acts for its members as a producer marketing or bargaining association in its dealings with a person licensed pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 55401) or Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 56101) in connection with any product produced by its members, may, either in its own name or in the name of its members, assert all the rights of a producer under either of these chapters with respect to any of those products.
(b)
Subdivision (a) does not apply to any late charges claimed under Section 55881 on any agricultural products delivered or scheduled to be delivered prior to January 1, 1986.