California

Food and Agricultural Code - FAC

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• § 6216 — The notice of hearing shall do all of the following: (a) State the name of the district and that it is being formed for the control of winegrape pests and diseases.
• § 6217 — Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the district.
• § 6218 — The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks prior to the date set for the hearing.
• § 62181 — The bonds provided for in this article are required for each handler and apply to all purchases of milk by that handler.
• § 62182 — (a) Every handler that operates only one plant within the state, before purchasing any market milk from a producer, shall execute and deliver to the secretary a surety bond, executed by the applicant
• § 62183 — If any handler so increases his purchases of market milk during the license year that such purchases exceed the amount for which the handler is bonded, such handler shall forthwith post such additiona
• § 62184 — The bonds required by Sections 62182 and 62183 shall be upon a form approved by the director, and shall be conditioned upon the payment in the manner that is required by this chapter, of all amounts d
• § 62185 — If a handler fails to pay any producer or producers for market milk in the manner that is required by this chapter, the director shall proceed forthwith to ascertain the names and addresses of all the
• § 62186 — After determining the claims of such producers, the director shall bring an action on the bond on behalf of such producers.
• § 62186.1 — (a) The director may bring an action against a surety bond company if the company fails to do any of the following: (1) Acknowledge promptly and act reasonably upon receiving a bond demand from the di
• § 62187 — If a handler fails to pay any producer in the manner that is required by this chapter, the director may require the filing of a new or additional bond in an amount determined by the director that will
• § 62188 — If recovery upon the bond is not sufficient to pay all of the claims as finally determined and adjudged by the court, any such amount recovered shall be divided pro rata among the producer-creditors.
• § 62189 — The failure of any handler that purchases market milk from producers to execute and deliver the bond as provided and required in this article is a violation of this chapter.
• § 6219 — At the hearing, the report of the county agricultural commissioner shall be received.
• § 62190 — Payments by a handler to a producer, for the purposes of any action on a handler’s bond or bonds for any year or years, shall be credited first to interest and then to principal due, owing, and unpaid
• § 62191 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 62193 or 62194, the purchase of any market milk in excess of 1,000 gallons monthly from any producer is an unlawful trade practice unless a written contract
• § 62192 — The production of market milk in excess of amounts provided to be purchased under contracts executed pursuant to Section 62191 shall be voluntary on the part of the producer and shall not be a conditi
• § 62193 — Section 62191 does not apply to the purchase of market milk which is necessary to meet an unanticipated increase in demand or an unanticipated shortage in the supply of a handler if both of the follow
• § 62194 — Section 62191 does not apply to market milk purchased under cash-on-delivery terms.
• § 62195 — The payment by a handler to any producer, including any nonprofit cooperative association acting as a producer, or the receipt from a handler by a producer, including any nonprofit cooperative associa
• § 62196 — The failure of any handler to pay for market milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in the contract with the producer is an unlawful trade practice, except as provided fo
• § 62197 — This article applies regardless of the form in which market milk is received by the handler and regardless of the area of origin of the market milk.
• § 62198 — Any contract between a producer and handler is voidable by the producer for a 45-day period following the occurrence of either of the following events: (a) The handler has failed to pay the producer t
• § 62199 — If a notice has been issued by the director that the future deliveries to the handler will not be covered under the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund created pursuant to Chapter 2.
• § 622 — (a) When there are moneys appropriated to the department, excluding General Fund appropriations, that are not required to meet any demand that has accrued or may accrue against the moneys, the Control
• § 6220 — At the hearing, any owner of winegrape acreage in the proposed district may present to the board of supervisors a request, in writing, for the exclusion of that land or any part of that land from the
• § 62200 — (a) Handlers shall pay producers either by check or cash.
• § 62201 — (a) If a handler does not pay for market milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in the contract, the handler shall pay the producer interest on the unpaid amount from the
• § 62202 — If a handler fails to pay for market milk delivered to him or her at the time and in the manner specified in this chapter, the director may assess a penalty for each payment date that producers were n
• § 6221 — If the board of supervisors determines that the petition does not comply with the requirements of law, the matter may be dismissed without prejudice to present a new petition covering the same matter.
• § 62211 — (a) (1) Every handler subject to the provisions of any stabilization and marketing plan, including a producer-handler, shall deduct as an assessment from payments made to producers for market milk, in
• § 62212 — The director may fix the rates of assessments or fees required by Section 62211 at lesser amounts, and may adjust the rates of assessments or fees from time to time, whenever he or she finds that the
• § 62213 — Any assessment or fee or either of them payable pursuant to any provision of this article is a debt of the person by whom such assessment or fee or either of them is payable and shall be due and payab
• § 6222 — (a) If the board of supervisors determines that the project is feasible and in the interest of the winegrape growers of the county, the board of supervisors shall, by order entered in its minutes, dec
• § 6223 — (a) In determining the boundaries of the district, the board of supervisors shall exclude from the district any winegrape acreage that it finds will not be benefited by the proposed project, and it ma
• § 62241 — All handlers shall make and file with the director at least once each month such reports as the director may require to enable him to enforce the provisions of this chapter.
• § 62241.5 — Within 60 days of the effective date of this section, each market milk handler shall provide the director with a list of the name, address, and date of every current contract between the handler and m
• § 62242 — Every handler that purchases market milk shall make and keep for three years a correct record which shows in detail all of the following with reference to the handling, sale, or storage of the market
• § 62243 — Any record or report made to the director pursuant to this article, or any contract required to be filed under this chapter, is confidential and shall not be divulged, except if necessary for the prop
• § 623 — All rentals which are collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Agriculture Building Fund.
• § 6230 — Upon the adoption of the order of organization, the board of supervisors shall immediately appoint a board of directors of five members to administer the affairs of the district.
• § 62301 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 62303, the director may, if he deems such board necessary or advisable, appoint: (a) A local advisory board for any marketing area established as prescribed in
• § 62302 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 62303, the director shall appoint: (a) A local advisory board, if a majority of the producers individually, or through any nonprofit agricultural cooperative ma
• § 62303 — The director shall not establish any local or regional advisory board pursuant to this article if he finds that the assessments or fees which are collected pursuant to Article 14 (commencing with Sect
• § 62304 — If the director receives a qualified petition for a local advisory board, he may investigate the possibility of establishing a regional advisory board covering the marketing area from which the petiti
• § 62305 — A local advisory board established pursuant to this article shall consist of seven members who shall be producers that supply market milk to the particular marketing area.
• § 62306 — The term of office of each member of a regional advisory board or a local advisory board shall be two years.
• § 62307 — The director may remove any member from a local or a regional advisory board if he finds, after a hearing, that such member is guilty of nonfeasance or malfeasance in office.
• § 62308 — The director may appoint a member to fill any vacancy on a local or a regional advisory board.
• § 62309 — Each regional advisory board and each local advisory board may meet in regular session each month, and each member shall be allowed twenty dollars ($20) per diem and mileage at the rate of fifteen cen
• § 6231 — In order to be eligible to be a director of the district, a person shall be a citizen of the United States and of this state, and an owner of lands included in the district that are devoted, in whole
• § 62310 — Any regional or local advisory board may, with the previous approval of the director, employ such personnel as may be necessary in the performance of its duties and shall adopt regulations for its con
• § 62311 — Regional and local advisory boards shall review with the director the methods which are to be used in determining producer costs, and aid the director in the selection of the level of production which
• § 62312 — For purposes of developing uniformity of administration as between marketing areas in which producer advisory boards have been appointed, the director shall call together representatives of regional a
• § 62313 — It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers of market milk appointed to the regional advisory boards pursuant to this article are intended to represent and further
• § 6232 — Upon his or her appointment, each director shall, in the manner provided by law, subscribe the oath of office and file the oath with the county clerk.
• § 6233 — (a) From and after the filing for record of the order of the board of supervisors declaring the district organized, and the appointment and qualification of its first board of directors, the organizat
• § 6234 — (a) Immediately after the organization of the district, the directors shall meet and organize as a board and shall elect a chairperson, vice chairperson and secretary from among their own number.
• § 6235 — The members of the board shall serve for terms of one year, or for a longer term as determined by the board of supervisors, and until the appointment and qualification of their successors.
• § 6236 — Upon the expiration of the term of any member of the board, the board of supervisors shall appoint the successor.
• § 6237 — The members of the board shall not receive any compensation for their services, but may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses, when claims for those expenses have been approved by the
• § 624 — The moneys in the Department of Agriculture Building Fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, to carry out this chapter, including the costs of improvements,
• § 6240 — The district may do all of the following: (a) Sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
• § 62401 — The violation of any provision of this chapter, or of any provision of any stabilization and marketing plan, or of any regulation adopted under this chapter, is a misdemeanor which is punishable by a
• § 62402 — Any person who violates this chapter, any provision of any stabilization and marketing plan, or any regulation adopted under this chapter, is liable civilly in an amount not less than one hundred doll
• § 62403 — The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation, or the threatened violation, of any provision of this chapter, any provision of any stabilization and marketing plan, or any regulation adopte
• § 6241 — Every district formed pursuant to this chapter has all of the powers prescribed by Section 6240 and other provisions of this chapter, regardless of any language in the petition for formation for any d
• § 6242 — The county agricultural commissioner of the county in which the district is located shall, upon request of the board, assist the district to the extent possible in all activities undertaken by the dis
• § 6243 — The board shall, immediately after its appointment and after public hearing, formulate an effective plan and adopt a budget of expenditures for the forthcoming fiscal year.
• § 6244 — There may be added to the budget for the first fiscal year of the operation of the district an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the total amount of the budget to cover the preliminary expenses of th
• § 6245 — For each fiscal year subsequent to the first year of operation of the district, the board shall adopt the final budget therefor in the same manner and at the same time that the budget for the first fi
• § 6246 — The board of supervisors may charge the district for any expenses incurred by the county in connection with the proceedings for the formation of the district, and the district shall reimburse the coun
• § 6250 — The county assessor, in making the annual assessment of property included in the district each and every year after the organization of the district, shall identify any parcel of real property with on
• § 62500 — The production and distribution of milk, and the components thereof, is hereby declared to be a business affected with a public interest.
• § 62501 — It is hereby declared that the dairy industry is a paramount agricultural industry of the state, and the normal processes of producing and marketing milk are enterprises of vast economic importance to
• § 62503 — This chapter shall be liberally construed.
• § 62505 — This chapter does not preclude any producer from bringing any action against any handler in any court of competent jurisdiction.
• § 62506 — In order to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund is hereby created.
• § 62507 — It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers and handlers appointed to the Milk Producers Security Trust Fund Board are intended to represent and further the interes
• § 62508 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Norman S.
• § 6251 — Whenever acreage within the district is planted with winegrape plants in such a fashion as to qualify as winegrape acreage, the acreage is subject to assessment as provided in this article.
• § 6252 — (a) After the district has been formed, an owner of winegrape acreage in the district may present to the board a request in writing for the exclusion of that land or any part of the land from the dist
• § 62521 — For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) (1) “Acceptable security” means a surety bond from an admitted insurer, deposits of government securities, a letter o
• § 6253 — (a) The board shall, on or before the first Monday in April of each year, file with the board of supervisors a budget that sets forth all estimated expenditures of the district for the fiscal year com
• § 6254 — The assessment authorized to be assessed and levied is hereby declared to be in the nature of a special assessment, and the Legislature hereby finds that the owners of all winegrape plants will be ben
• § 62540 — (a) The secretary shall appoint a Milk Producers Security Trust Fund Board consisting of seven members.
• § 62541 — Each member of the board shall be paid one hundred dollars ($100) per day plus travel expenses, including expenses for lodging and meals, which are incurred in the attendance at board meetings or in c
• § 62542 — The board shall advise the secretary on the administration of the fund, including, but not limited to, the amount of the fund defaults under this chapter and the implementation of the security charge
• § 62543 — The board may, by contract, with the approval of the secretary, engage the services of an accounting firm or other consultants or agencies that the board determines to be necessary.
• § 6255 — The assessment so levied shall be computed and entered upon the assessment roll by the county auditor, and if the supervisors fail to levy the assessment as required, the auditor shall do so.
• § 6256 — The general provisions of the laws of this state, prescribing the manner of levying and collecting county taxes and the duties of the several county officers with respect to levying and collecting cou
• § 6256.5 — The revenue from the assessments imposed pursuant to this chapter by the district are trust funds and shall be encumbered only for the purposes for which the district is formed and for the benefit of
• § 62560 — (a) The security charges provided for in Section 62561 shall be collected until January 1, 2007.
• § 62561 — (a) The following security charges shall be in effect for any period for which the secretary has implemented collections under this chapter: (1) 3.
• § 62563 — The amount of any handler’s obligation attributable to the security charges established pursuant to Section 62561 shall be remitted by the secretary to the fund by the end of the month following the m
• § 62565 — Security charges shall be collected by the secretary through direct payment.
• § 62566 — The secretary may add a penalty of 10 percent to amounts that are not paid when due.
• § 62567 — If any handler or producer-handler does not provide the information necessary to determine the amount due, when required, the secretary shall estimate the amount due from the records of the department
• § 62568 — The secretary may take all appropriate action against any person to recover any unpaid amounts.
• § 62569 — (a) Any money that is collected by the secretary pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in a bank or other depository that is approved by the secretary.
• § 6257 — The county treasury shall be the repository of all the moneys of the district.
• § 62570 — All fund activities shall be subject to an audit at least once every two years by an auditing firm recommended by the board and selected by the secretary.
• § 62571 — Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, any money that is collected by the secretary pursuant to this chapter is hereby continuously appropriated to the secretary to carry out only those
• § 62572 — Any money that is deposited pursuant to Section 62569, which the secretary determines is available for investment, may be invested or reinvested by the Treasurer in any of the securities described in
• § 62573 — (a) Any increment that is received from investment, reinvestment, or deposit of money pursuant to Section 62572 shall be deposited to the credit of the fund.
• § 62574 — Immediately following the payment to the fund of the increment provided in Section 62573, the secretary may, after consultation with the board, transfer an amount equal to one-half of that increment t
• § 6258 — If a consolidated district includes parts of two or more counties, the repository of all money of the district shall be the county treasury of the county in which is located the largest area of the di
• § 62580 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, milk shipped by a producer to a handler who meets all of the following criteria shall be considered for coverage pursuant to this chapter: (1) A valid
• § 62580.5 — Any producer entity, including a nonprofit cooperative association that severs a disqualifying beneficial ownership interest in a handler to whom it supplies bulk milk, shall not have trust fund cover
• § 62581 — Only shipments which occur during the first 35 days from the date of the earliest shipment for which a producer has not been paid are eligible.
• § 62582 — If future shipments to a handler are not eligible for coverage under this chapter in the event of a default, the secretary shall notify all producers who have a contract on file with the secretary, al
• § 62583 — If, on the date of the notice issued pursuant to Section 62582, a producer has a contract with the handler which is on file with the secretary, and that producer has received payment from a handler wh
• § 62584 — If, on the date of the notice issued pursuant to Section 62582, a producer does not have a contract with the handler which is on file with the secretary, shipments by that producer which occur more th
• § 62585 — If the secretary issues a notice pursuant to Section 62582, the secretary may again qualify shipments to the handler if the handler has corrected the deficiency upon which the notice was originally is
• § 62586 — The secretary shall, at least monthly, publish a current list of all handlers to whom shipments are not eligible for coverage under the fund.
• § 62587 — The secretary may waive any of the provisions of this article if, after consultation with the board, the secretary finds that a hardship would be imposed on persons subject to this chapter that is not
• § 6259 — (a) The county treasurer shall pay out money of the district only upon warrants of the county auditor drawn upon the order of the board of directors of the district signed by the chairperson or vice c
• § 626 — Money shall not be transferred pursuant to Section 622 to the Department of Agriculture Building Fund if it will interfere with the administrative purposes for which the money was collected.
• § 6260 — Lands devoted exclusively to the growing of winegrapes within a tract of land outside the district, but in the county in which the district is located, may be annexed to the district in the same manne
• § 62600 — Any producer who does not receive payment for milk sold or delivered to a handler in the manner required by Section 1051.
• § 62601 — The secretary shall, upon the secretary’s own motion or upon information from a producer, producer representative, or any other person, immediately take whatever action is necessary to determine wheth
• § 62603 — If the secretary determines that a payment default has occurred, the secretary shall notify the handler that it has one business day from receipt of the notification to correct the payment deficiency.
• § 62604 — When a payment default has occurred, which was not corrected within one business day after notification, the secretary shall issue a notice pursuant to Section 62582 which identifies the defaulting ha
• § 62620 — If the secretary determines that the fund is liable for any nonpayments to producers, the secretary shall provide to the producers, who have a contract with the defaulting handler on file with the sec
• § 62621 — If a verified claim form is not filed as required by Section 62620, the secretary and the fund are relieved of any further duty or liability pursuant to this chapter.
• § 62622 — Upon receipt of all verified claim forms from producers or the expiration of the time allowed to file claims, whichever occurs first, the secretary shall calculate the amount due each producer and sha
• § 62623 — For purposes of this chapter, the amounts owed to the producers shall be calculated as follows: (a) Only shipments that occur during the first 35 days from the date of the earliest shipment for which
• § 62624 — Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) shall be deducted from the total of the amount owed to all producers, as calculated in Section 62623, and the balance shall be paid from the fund on a pro rata
• § 62625 — A prorated payment shall be made to all affected producers based on the amount payable pursuant to Section 62624 when there is not sufficient money in the fund.
• § 62660 — (a) The secretary shall collect from each producer three and three-tenths mills ($0.
• § 62661 — The secretary is the instrumentality of this state for the purpose of administering and enforcing this chapter and to execute the legislative intent expressed in this chapter, and is hereby vested wit
• § 62662 — The secretary may exercise any or all of the powers conferred by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code upon the head of a department with
• § 62663 — For purposes of enforcing this chapter, the secretary may investigate any and all transactions between producers and handlers, between nonprofit cooperative associations and producers, and among handl
• § 62665 — Any order of the secretary made pursuant to this chapter that substantially affects the rights of any directly affected party shall be subject to judicial review upon petition to the appropriate court
• § 62666 — Any producer who recovers from the fund shall subrogate to the secretary all rights of recovery against any person or organization, and the producer shall execute and deliver to the secretary instrume
• § 62667 — Any payments made to producers from the fund due to a handler’s default shall accrue interest at the rate of 12 percent per annum from the date of payment.
• § 627 — (a) The secretary may do any and all things that are necessary to protect the investment or use, including the purchase of insurance against the loss of, or damage to, the property, or the loss of its
• § 6270 — Any two or more districts organized or existing under this chapter may be consolidated, whether or not the boundaries are coterminous, and whether or not the districts are located in the same county.
• § 62700 — The production and distribution of fluid milk and fluid cream is hereby declared to be a business affected with a public interest.
• § 62701 — It is hereby declared that fluid milk and fluid cream are necessary articles of food for human consumption; that the production and maintenance of an adequate supply of healthful milk of proper chemic
• § 62702 — It is recognized by the Legislature that currently the powers conferred upon the director by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) are inadequate to enable the dairy industry to develop and mainta
• § 62702.1 — It is recognized by the Legislature that the provisions for equalization of usages among producers and entry of new producers contained in the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act, as originally enacted, and th
• § 62703 — In effectuating the purposes of this chapter, a production base and a pool quota shall be established for each producer pursuant to Section 62707.
• § 62704 — The director is authorized to develop a proposed pooling plan and to designate the proposed areas in which the plan will be made effective.
• § 62705 — After the director, with the advice and assistance of the formulation committee, has formulated the proposed plan, he shall hold one or more public hearings in each proposed pooling area to be affecte
• § 62706 — The pooling plan shall prescribe the pooling area to be covered by each pool.
• § 62707 — The formulation committee shall make recommendations to the secretary for inclusion in the pooling plan, and the secretary shall include in the pooling plan, all of the following: (a) The establishmen
• § 62707.1 — (a) The director, on July 1, 1978, shall issue new pool quota sufficient to bring all holders of production base and pool quota as of that date (excluding any production base and pool quota issued pur
• § 62707.2 — A person eligible for, but not yet assigned, a production base or pool quota, or both, pursuant to Section 62707 shall not be eligible for such a production base or pool quota, or both, unless he appl
• § 62707.5 — If a portion of the pool quota of any producer is transferred, it shall carry with it the same quantity of production base, except that if the pool quota exceeds the production base, the pool quota sh
• § 62707.6 — In addition to the quota provided for under paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 62707.
• § 62708 — “Producer-handler” for purposes of this chapter is any person that is both a producer and a handler of fluid milk or fluid cream.
• § 62708.1 — Any producer-handler who qualified and elected an exemption under Section 62708 and continued eligibility for such exemption by complying with the requirements of that section shall be entitled after
• § 62708.5 — (a) A producer-handler, for purposes of this chapter, shall also include, as a separate and distinct category of producer-handlers, any producer and any handler who purchases or handles fluid milk or
• § 6271 — The board of directors may adopt a resolution that recites the fact of receipt and the willingness of the district to consolidate, and shall then send copies of the resolution to the board of director
• § 62710 — The production base and the pool quota for milk shipped through a cooperative association shall belong to the individual producer but shall be assigned to the custody and control of the cooperative as
• § 62711 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (h) of Section 62707, each producer shall be paid the highest usage for that amount of his or her fluid milk production that is equal to his or her pool quota and
• § 62712 — (a) The secretary may require handlers, including cooperative associations acting as handlers, to make reports at any intervals and in any detail that he or she finds necessary for the operation of th
• § 62714 — After the director has established pools, each distributor shall report to the director the total receipts from the producers that are shipping to the distributor and the class 1, class 2, class 3, cl
• § 62715 — Any individual distributor purchasing milk from a producer shall continue to have the right to specify quality requirements that are more stringent than standards set by public regulatory or health au
• § 62716 — Following the required hearing, the director shall submit the pooling plan to producers concerned for their approval or disapproval in a statewide referendum.
• § 62717 — If the director finds that producers on a statewide basis have assented in writing to the proposed pooling plan submitted to them for assent, the director shall place the proposed pooling plan into ef
• § 62718 — The pools established shall be administered by the director.
• § 62719 — The director shall, from nominations submitted by producers, appoint a review board composed of no less than 12 members to advise him in the administration of the pool plan.
• § 62719.1 — It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers appointed to the review board pursuant to Section 62719 are intended to represent and further the interest of a particul
• § 6272 — The board of supervisors of the county in which is located the largest area of winegrape acreage of the proposed consolidated district shall fix a time and place for hearing the proposal.
• § 62720 — No pooling plan formulated pursuant to this chapter shall restrict the free movement of fluid milk and no pooling plan shall result in an unequal raw product cost between distributors in the same mark
• § 62721 — No pooling plan shall control the production of fluid milk except insofar as may otherwise be specifically authorized in this chapter.
• § 62722 — Pooling plans shall not apply to the production of goats milk or producer-handlers who produce and sell less than 500 gallons of fluid milk used for class 1 purposes per day unless they specifically r
• § 62723 — Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definitions contained in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 62724 — This chapter does not modify the provisions of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 61301) nor Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801) of this part, except as may be necessary to effect the purposes o
• § 62725 — The director is authorized to use money in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund derived from assessments and fees collected pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 61801), to the extent
• § 62726 — The director is the instrumentality of this state for the purpose of administering and enforcing the provisions of this chapter and to execute the legislative intent which is expressed in this chapter
• § 62727 — It is the intent of the Legislature that the power conferred in this chapter shall be liberally construed.
• § 62728 — The director shall terminate any pooling plan in effect in any marketing area without notice or hearing at any time that there ceases to be a stabilization and marketing plan in force and effect in su
• § 62729 — The director or his assistants, deputies, agents, or other employees, are authorized to travel out-of-state in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
• § 6273 — If the board of supervisors determines that consolidation is feasible and in the best interests of the winegrape growers of the respective districts, it shall, by resolution duly adopted, declare the
• § 62730 — Any violation of any provision of this chapter, or any regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, shall be punishable, and shall have the same effect, as a violation of Chapter 2 (commencing with S
• § 62731 — This chapter shall be known as the Gonsalves Milk Pooling Act.
• § 6274 — Upon the adoption of a resolution consolidating two or more districts, the board of supervisors of the county in which is located the largest area of winegrape acreage shall immediately appoint a boar
• § 6275 — The board of a consolidated district has all the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the board of any other district organized pursuant to this chapter.
• § 62750 — Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 62700) in conflict with this section or any pooling plan for market milk in effect under that chapter, effective January 1, 1994, ea
• § 62750.1 — In calculating the pool value, the volume of milk that has been classified as restricted use market milk shall be credited to the handler at the class 4a or class 4b price, whichever is lower.
• § 62751 — Except as provided in Section 62756, this chapter shall remain operative until the secretary certifies to the Secretary of State that producers have voted in a referendum to suspend the operation of t
• § 62752 — The secretary may hold a public hearing at any time to consider whether this chapter shall be suspended, and shall hold a public hearing to review a petition requesting the suspension of this chapter
• § 62753 — The secretary shall establish a period of 60 days in which to conduct the referendum.
• § 62754 — (a) Each producer shall have one vote and the vote shall be individually cast in order to prevent block voting.
• § 62755 — (a) The secretary shall find that producers have assented to the continued operation of this chapter if the secretary finds on a statewide basis that not less than 51 percent of the total number of el
• § 62756 — (a) If the continued operation of this chapter is not approved, the secretary shall continue in operation the pooling plan in effect on December 31, 1993.
• § 62757 — (a) If a federal milk marketing order is established in California, the secretary is authorized to establish a stand-alone quota program, the details of which shall be included in the pooling plan.
• § 6276 — Any district that has been included in a consolidated district may withdraw from the consolidated district and be reconstituted as a separate district by filing with the board of directors of the cons
• § 62765 — The Department of Food and Agriculture, after consulting with its dairy advisory committee, shall complete a study of various proposals affecting regulated milk pricing and pooling programs by April 1
• § 6280 — Upon the filing of a petition with the board of supervisors, signed by the owners of not less than 60 percent by area of the winegrape acreage in the district, requesting the dissolution of the distri
• § 62801 — Except as otherwise provided in Section 62803, or unless the parties agree otherwise, every contract for the sale of edible nuts shall be in writing and shall state the full purchase price in a defini
• § 62802 — Any purchaser of edible nuts which are delivered pursuant to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of the act amending this section in the 1983–84 Regular Session of the Legislature a
• § 62803 — This article is not applicable to any contract between any member of any cooperative agricultural marketing association, which is operating under, and by virtue of, the laws of this state, any other s
• § 6281 — The board of supervisors shall give notice of the time and place fixed for the hearing upon the petition for dissolution.
• § 6282 — The notice of hearing shall state all of the following: (a) That a petition has been filed requesting the dissolution of the district.
• § 6283 — Notice of the hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the district.
• § 62831 — The commissioner of each county, under the supervision of the director, shall enforce this article insofar as it relates to the keeping of the records which are required to be kept by this article.