Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

Upon recommendation of the marketing program committee which is concerned, the director may, consistent with this chapter, establish such administrative regulations as may be necessary to facilitate the administration and enforcement of each marketing program which is promulgated…

It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers, or handlers, and processors appointed to any committees pursuant to this article are intended to represent and further the interest of a particular agricultural industry concerned, and that such repr…

The powers which are granted to a marketing program committee by a marketing program pursuant to this article may be exercised for the purpose of minimizing the effect of any surplus or other adverse market condition. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to establish and maintain stabilization and surplus pools. The marketing of green ripe olives is not, however, subject to the provisions of any marketing program which relates to the esablishment and operation of s…

The program committee may receive from each producer for delivery into a stabilization or surplus pool the uncertificated portions of the commodity which is regulated by the marketing program and market it by any variety, grade, or size for the account of the producers if the unc…

In operating any stabilization or surplus pool, the marketing program committee may receive and account for the commodity on the basis of variety, grade, or size classifications, and may fix servicing charges to be assessed against the total quantity of any commodity which is rec…

The marketing program committee has title to all of the commodity in each of the pools and shall handle all of the commodity received into each of the pools and account for it to each producer that is beneficially interested in such commodity upon a pooled basis. (Enacted by Stat…

The contents of a stabilization pool may be disposed of or may be marketed, from time to time, as the marketing program committee deems advisable, consistent with the maintenance of stabilized marketing conditions. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The contents of a surplus pool shall not be marketed in any form which would directly compete with that portion of the commodity which is regularly certificated or which is in a stabilization pool. Any part of any surplus pool may, however, be transferred by a marketing program c…

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to establish and maintain diversion or substandard pools. The program committee may receive from each producer for delivery into a diversion or a substandard pool such quantity of each producer’s production or deli…

In operating any such diversion or substandard pool, the marketing program committee may fix servicing charges to be assessed against the commodity which is received into the pool and may receive and account for the commodity on a basis of variety, grade, and size classifications…

The contents of any diversion or substandard pool shall be disposed of for byproducts or for other purposes under proper safeguards to prevent that part of the commodity which is so disposed of from directly competing with the part of the commodity which is marketed in its usual …

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to create, establish, or otherwise obtain and operate any facility for the storing, financing, grading, packing, servicing, processing, preparing for market, selling, or disposal of the contents of any pools which …

The marketing program committee may pledge all of the commodity that is in any pool which is established pursuant to any provision of this article with a bank or other lending agency for the purpose of obtaining loans upon such commodity. The marketing program committee has title…

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to create, by a uniform assessment upon producers based upon the volume of the commodity which is marketed by each, or upon some other uniform and equitable basis, maintain, and disburse an equalization fund to be …

No part of any funds which are raised for equalization fund purposes, as specified in Section 59813, shall be applied to the cost of maintenance of the department.

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to establish, adopt, and apply methods for correlating the marketable supply of any commodity to the reasonable market demands by means of volume limitation, time limitation, diversion, or by grade, quality, or siz…

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to broaden distribution and increase consuming outlets by appropriate educational and trade stimulation efforts of a general industry nature and not unfairly depreciative of the quality of any other food product. (…

Educational and trade stimulation efforts may include all of the following: (a) Efforts to prevent, modify, or remove trade barriers which directly affect the commodity to which the marketing program applies. (b) The presentation of facts to, and negotiations with, any state, fed…

For the purpose of providing funds to defray the cost of formulating, administering, and enforcing educational and trade stimulation efforts, a fee or assessment shall be established and collected upon the volume of the commodity which is marketed or upon some other uniform and e…

Any portion of the funds which are collected during any marketing season to accomplish the purposes of Sections 59816, 59817, and 59818 may, subject to the approval of the director, be carried forward for expenditure during any season subsequent to the season during which the fun…

Any educational and trade stimulation efforts which are authorized by any marketing program if approved by growers, either by written assent or by referendum ballots, for a specified period of time, but not exceeding four years, may be carried out for such period without the nece…

A marketing program may authorize the marketing program committee to provide for the adjustment of production of any commodity by means of tree or vine pulling. The marketing program committee may receive applications from producers for acreage adjustment payments. The marketing …

A marketing program of production adjustment adopted under Section 59821 shall not authorize any payment for the removal of acreages of trees or vines of any species or variety specified in the marketing program which have, during the three years immediately preceding the date of…

If the marketing program committee finds that the results of research would be advantageous in the administration of a marketing program, it may, subject to the approval of the director, authorize and arrange for research to be conducted. The cost of the research shall be conside…

In any such research, the Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California and the program committee shall cooperate in selecting the research projects to be carried on from time to time. Insofar as practicable, the projects shall be carried out by the College o…

Upon the issuance of a marketing program for the written assent of producers, the director shall submit a copy of the marketing program in full to each of the producers of the commodity which is to be affected, or their duly authorized agent, within the proposed proration zone as…

A nonprofit cooperative association may assent on behalf of any of its members only if it is authorized so to do by an instrument in writing which is signed by the member. Such authority may be revoked as to him by any such member by an instrument in writing which is filed with t…

The director may at the time of mailing to producers a marketing program or amendments to it for written assent, establish a closing date after which assents will not be counted. If he does so, the closing date upon which assents are required to be postmarked in order to be count…

If the closing date is not established at the time assent forms are mailed to producers, and the director subsequently finds that because of the oncoming harvesting season or because of any other relevant reason it is desirable to fix a closing date for filing assents, he may do …

If the director finds that the marketing program has been assented to in writing by one of the following, he shall make the marketing program effective: (a) Not less than 65 percent of the producers in the proration zone that produced for market not less than 51 percent of the qu…

If the director makes a marketing program effective, he shall publish a notice of the effective date pursuant to Section 6061 of the Government Code in the capital of the state and in such other localities as the director may prescribe, not less than five days prior to the effect…

A member of the marketing program committee, or the proration zone agent, shall not unduly influence producers in their choice either for or against the institution of a marketing program, or for or against the termination of such a marketing program.

After any marketing program has been formulated and has been approved as provided in this chapter, the agent for the proration zone shall assume the administration of the marketing program and any subsequent modification of it and the issuance of proration certificates pursuant t…

Each producer is entitled to one primary certificate which may indicate the quantities of the commodity for which the marketing program has been instituted which the producer that is named in the certificate is entitled to harvest or otherwise prepare for market and delivery into…

Secondary certificates shall be numbered consecutively and shall be used to control the time and volume of harvesting or other preparation for disposal. Secondary certificates shall accompany all deliveries of the prorated commodity by producers into a primary trade channel. (Ena…

In the case of any commodity which is normally concentrated for preparation for market, the marketing program committee may authorize the harvesting of the entire commodity for the purpose of delivery to a concentration point and subsequent marketing control. (Enacted by Stats. 1…

Primary or secondary certificates are not negotiable between producers, except with the approval of the marketing program committee and the director. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

In the operation of any marketing program, any cooperative or other market agency which is entitled to the possession of any commodity for marketing purposes may be authorized in writing by the marketing program committee to receive certificates for producers that are represented…

Any amendment to a marketing program which is specified in Sections 59912 to 59921, inclusive, is a major amendment. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to correlate the marketable supply of any commodity with reasonable market demands by means of volume, grade, size, variety, or time regulations. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to fix salable and surplus percentages. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to establish, maintain, and operate stabilization, surplus, or diversion—substandard pools. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to create, establish, or otherwise obtain and operate any facility for the storing, financing, grading, packing, servicing, processing, preparing for market, selling, or disposing of t…

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to create and disburse an equalization fund as provided for in Sections 59813 and 59814. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to broaden distribution and increase consuming outlets by educational and trade stimulation efforts. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to provide for the adjustment of production of any commodity by means of tree or vine pulling. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority for carrying on research which is related to production, processing, or distribution of any commodity, that is in addition to research that is directly necessary to the administration …

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to increase an assessment rate or fee beyond the maximum authorized by the marketing program which is in effect. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

An amendment is a major amendment if it adds to, or deletes from, a marketing program authority to extend the application of the provisions of the marketing program to portions or uses of any commodity which is not subject to such provisions or to extend the application of such p…