Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

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 cost of administering the provisions of this chapter, including any allocation o…

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 payable to the director upon the date set forth in Section 62211. If such person does…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the right of every citizen in this state to drink safe, potable, wholesome, and pure drinking water. (b) The health and economic prosperity of rural communities and individual farm families in the state are threat…

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Active ingredient” has the same meaning as defined in Section 136 of Title 7 of the United States Code. (b) “Agricultural use” has the same meaning as defined in Section 11408. (c) “Board” means the State Water R…

(a) Not later than December 1, 1986, a person that has registered a pesticide in California for agricultural use shall submit to the director the information prescribed in this subdivision. The information shall be submitted for each active ingredient in each pesticide registered…

(a) The department shall establish specific numerical values for water solubility, soil adsorption coefficient (Koc), hydrolysis, aerobic and anaerobic soil metabolism, and field dissipation. The values established by the department shall be at least equal to those established by…

(a) Any registrant of a pesticide identified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 13144 is subject to a fine of up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each day the groundwater protection data gap exists. In determining the amount of the fine, the director shall consid…

(a) The director shall not register or renew the registration of a pesticide intended to be applied to or injected into the ground by ground-based application equipment or by chemigation after December 1, 1988, if there is a groundwater protection data gap for that pesticide, unl…

The director shall annually request a budget appropriation in order to meet the reasonable and anticipated costs of conducting soil and water monitoring pursuant to Section 13148, a review of data submitted pursuant to Section 13143, and the administration of pesticides placed on…

(a) In order to more accurately determine the mobility and persistence of the pesticides identified in the Groundwater Protection List, and to determine if these pesticides have migrated to groundwaters of the state, the director shall conduct soil and groundwater monitoring stat…

(a) Within 90 days after the active ingredient, other specified ingredient, or degradation product of a pesticide is detected under any of the conditions listed in paragraph (1) or (2), the director shall determine whether the detection resulted from agricultural use in accordanc…

The director may allow the continued registration, sale, and use of a pesticide that meets any one of the conditions specified in Section 13149 if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The registrant submits a report and documented evidence that demonstrate both of the fol…

Any pesticide identified pursuant to Section 13149 that fails to meet any of the conditions of Section 13150 shall be canceled. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 361, Sec. 92. Effective January 1, 1997.)

(a) (1) The department shall conduct ongoing soil and groundwater monitoring of any pesticide whose continued use is permitted following the issuance of findings by the director pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 13150. The department shall continuously review new science and…

(a) The board of supervisors of a county may require registration and establish a schedule of annual registration fees to be paid by any person who acts as a wholesaler of fresh fruit and vegetables under any license required under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 56101) of Div…

Section 43061 does not apply to any of the following: (a) Any person acting as a retail merchant, as that term is described in Section 56161, or any person acting as a producer, as that term is defined in Section 56110. (b) Any person who only handles products other than fruits a…

“Costs,” as used in this article, means direct costs only in the administration and enforcement of this division at places other than places operated by retail merchants, as that term is described in Section 56161. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 450, Sec. 1.)

It is unlawful for any person to operate as a wholesaler of fruits and vegetables under this division in any county with registration as established pursuant to this article unless that person is registered and has paid the required fee pursuant to this article. (Added by Stats. …

(a) A fruit and vegetable wholesaler registration issued pursuant to Section 43061 may be refused, revoked, or suspended by the commissioner for any violation of either this division or a regulation issued pursuant to this division. (b) Procedures for the refusal, suspension, or …

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. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1192.)

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 market milk producer. Monthly thereafter, the handler shall report to the directo…

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 milk: (a) The name and address of the seller. (b) The date the market milk was r…

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 proper determination of any court proceedings or hearing before the director. (Amend…

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Feasible alternative” means other chemical or nonchemical procedures that can reasonably accomplish the same pest control function as existing procedures with comparable effectiveness and reliability, taking …

The director may issue a certificate of interim registration allowing the sale and use of a pesticide that otherwise meets the requirements of this chapter if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The certificate stipulates which of the California data requirements listed …

In granting a certificate of interim registration, the director may defer no more than three of the following registration data requirements: (a) Efficacy studies pursuant to Section 12824. (b) KOW (octanol water partition coefficient) pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a)…

Consistent with the limitations of Section 13163, a registrant or a user group of any pesticide registered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency may apply for a California certificate of interim registration if the applicant does all of the following: (a) The appli…

Notwithstanding Section 13163, the director shall not grant a certificate of interim registration unless he or she consults with the Pesticide Registration and Evaluation Committee on the proposed interim registration, and makes a written finding, after consultation, declaring al…

The director shall limit the use of any pesticide granted a certificate of interim registration to specific uses within a pest management system meeting the requirements of subdivision (a) of Section 13164. The director may place additional restrictions on the use of any pesticid…

The director shall revoke or refuse to renew a certificate of interim registration at any time that he or she finds that the interim registration no longer meets all the requirements of this article, including the registrant’s failure to submit a progress report for any deferred …

The director may adopt regulations to carry out this article. (Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 963, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1994.)

To the extent that this article conflicts with other provisions in Article 15 of this chapter, this article shall prevail. Unless otherwise specified in this article, a certificate of interim registration shall be subject to all other provisions governing certificates of registra…

The department shall impose a fee in an amount sufficient to cover the department’s costs of reviewing and processing the application on any person who applies for a certificate of interim registration pursuant to this article. Fee revenue shall be deposited in the Department of …

(a) The terms “California grown,” “California-grown,” and similar terms with identical connotations shall be used in the labeling or advertising of agricultural products as follows: (1) The terms “California grown,” “California-grown,” and similar terms with identical connotation…

This article, Article 4 (commencing with Section 17608) of Chapter 5 of Part 10.5 of the Education Code, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 105500) of Chapter 7 of Division 103 of the Health and Safety Code, shall be known and may be cited as the Healthy Schools Act of 2000. …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of this article, “integrated pest management” means a pest management strategy that focuses on long-term prevention or suppression of pest problems through a combination of techniques such as monitoring for pest presence and establi…

It is the policy of the state that effective least toxic pest management practices should be the preferred method of managing pests at schoolsites and that the state, in order to reduce children’s exposure to toxic pesticides, shall take the necessary steps, pursuant to this arti…

(a) The department shall promote and facilitate the voluntary adoption of integrated pest management programs for schoolsites, excluding privately operated child day care facilities, as defined in Section 1596.750 of the Health and Safety Code, that voluntarily choose to do so. F…

(a) In implementing Section 13183, the department shall establish and maintain an Internet Web site as a comprehensive directory of resources describing and promoting least-hazardous practices at schoolsites. The Web site shall also make available an electronic copy of the model …

(a) The department shall establish an integrated pest management training program in order to facilitate the adoption of a model IPM program and least-hazardous pest control practices by schoolsites. In establishing the IPM training program, the department shall do all of the fol…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the Department of Pesticide Regulation, pursuant to Section 12979 of the Food and Agricultural Code and Sections 6624 and 6627 of Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations, requires persons engaged for hire in the business of pest c…

(a) Commencing July 1, 2016, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a school designee, as defined in Section 17609 of the Education Code, and any person, including, but not necessarily limited to, a schoolsite or school district employee, who, in the course of his or her work…

Sections 13186 and 13186.5 shall not apply to any agency signatory to a cooperative agreement with the State Department of Public Health pursuant to Section 116180 of the Health and Safety Code. (Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 848, Sec. 14. (SB 1405) Effective January 1, 2015.)

The Director of Pesticide Regulation may adopt regulations to implement this article. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 718, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 2001.)

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 this chapter to assist and advise him in matters which pertain to the production…

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 marketing association which is authorized by its members to so petition, request t…