Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

The commissioner shall file the cottongrowers register within 60 days of receipt of the order from the board of supervisors or by March 1st, whichever date is the later. The commissioner shall file with the register of cottongrowers a report and recommendation to the board of sup…

The proponents of the formation of the district may, within 30 days of the receipt by the board of supervisors of the register of cottongrowers from the agricultural commissioner, file with the board of supervisors a petition for the establishment of the district signed by not le…

Upon receipt of the petition, the board of supervisors shall immediately refer the petition to the agricultural commissioner who shall examine it by reference to the register of cottongrowers, and shall, within 15 days after receiving the petition, return the petition to the boar…

At its meeting at which the certificate is received from the agricultural commissioner, or at its next meeting, regular or special, thereafter, the board of supervisors shall by order fix a time and place for hearing the petition, which time shall be not less than 20 days nor mor…

At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall make such changes in the boundaries of the proposed district as they determine to be advisable, and shall determine and describe the boundaries of the district. The board of supervisors shall not modify the boundaries so as to exclud…

The board of supervisors shall, at the next regular or special meeting following the hearing upon the question of the organization of the proposed district, meet and, if it determines that the evidence presented at the hearing was sufficient to warrant the organization of the dis…

The board of supervisors shall, at the meeting at which the order declaring the district to be organized is made, appoint a board of five directors to administer the affairs of the district. No person shall, at any time, be eligible to hold the office of director of any district …

Each director so appointed shall, in the manner provided by law, give official bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties in the amount which shall be fixed by the board of supervisors, and shall subscribe the oath of office, and the bonds and oaths shall be filed wit…

Any cotton pests abatement district organized pursuant to this chapter may do all of the following: (a) Have perpetual succession. (b) Sue and be sued for all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction. (c) Adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.…

The general control and management of each district shall be vested in a board of directors of five members. Directors shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by them in and about the performance of any duties required by the board of directors to…

The term of office of the directors shall be four years, except for those first appointed upon the organization of the district. The first appointees shall, immediately upon their appointment, classify themselves by lot so that the terms of three of them shall expire on the first…

In the event of a vacancy in the board of directors either by resignation, death, or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors and the person so appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the term of his or her predecessor. (Added by …

The board of directors of each district shall have the power to appoint and to fix the compensation of a secretary of the district who shall keep all records and perform such other duties as are ordered by the board of directors. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 191, Sec. 2. Effective …

Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, all acts of the board of directors shall be by resolution, and the adoption of a resolution shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of the board of directors. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 142, Sec. 23.)

The powers conferred upon any cotton pests abatement district and its board of directors by the provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to be in lieu of other disease, pest, or insect control statutes, but an addition thereto, and no act of any district or of any of its…

The agricultural commissioner of the county in which any district is situated, may, without fee or charge, supervise and direct, in accordance with the best known accepted methods as determined by the board of directors, all inspection, eradication, fumigation, and other activiti…

The board of supervisors in every county where a district has been organized and exists under the provisions of this chapter shall direct the agricultural commissioner to file with the board of supervisors on March 1st of each year a register of every cottongrower intending to gr…

The board of directors of each district shall, on or before the first Monday in February of each year, prepare and file with the board of supervisors of the county in which the district is situated, a budget setting forth all estimated expenditures of the district for the fiscal …

The board of supervisors of the county may annually establish a fee for a permit to grow cotton within each cotton pests abatement district situated within the county and shall issue the permit to any cottongrower who satisfies the requirements of this chapter. The board of super…

The permit fee shall be entered in the minutes of the board of supervisors who shall advise the board of directors of the district of the fee per acre required for the issuance of a permit. The board of directors shall collect this fee from the applicant for a permit to grow cott…

The treasury of the county shall be the repository of all the moneys of the district. The county treasurer shall receive and receipt for all of these moneys, and place the same to the credit of the district. Any interest earned on the district funds shall be the property of the d…

The board of directors, when prohibiting the planting, growing, or maintenance of cotton plants within the boundaries of the district, shall notify persons affected by this action within 15 days. The grower within 30 days may appeal the decision of the board of directors to the b…

In each cotton pests abatement district, a biennial election shall be held in March of each odd-numbered year by the county elections official of the county in which a majority of the acreage in the district is contained. Notice of the election, and of the offices to be filled, s…

The county elections official on or after the 29th day before the election shall mail a ballot, an identification envelope, and a stamped and addressed return envelope to each cottongrower on the register submitted by the agricultural commissioner. The ballot shall indicate the n…

The persons declared elected shall take the oath of office and file their official bonds with the county elections official on or before the first day of April following their election and shall take office at noon of that day. (Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 221, Sec. 26. Effective…

Any owner of land devoted to the growing of cotton in the county where the district is situated may file a petition for inclusion in the district with the board of directors of any cotton pests abatement district, and the land may, by order of the board of directors, be included …

The board of directors of each cotton pests abatement district shall hold a regular meeting at least once each month at the time and place in the district designated by resolution of the board; and the board of directors of each district shall prescribe the rules and regulations …

Whenever the board of supervisors, by resolution, desires to dissolve the district, or whenever a petition, signed by not less than 25 percent of the cottongrowers within a district who are engaged in the growing of cotton, requesting the dissolution of the district is presented …

At the expiration of 90 days after the election, the board of directors shall deliver on the basis of the ratio of the acreage devoted to cottongrowing in each county in the district all property and assets in their possession belonging to the district to the agricultural commiss…

All claims and accounts against the district which have not been settled by the board of directors within 90 days after the election authorizing the dissolution of the district shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county in which the district was located and shal…

In the event that there are insufficient funds to discharge all claims and accounts brought pursuant to Section 6083, the board of supervisors shall, at the time of levying the next general county taxes, make a special assessment upon the net acreage devoted to the growing of cot…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Cotton Pests Abatement District Act. (Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 142, Sec. 24.)