Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

Each commissioner shall provide for the taking of samples, making tests, and issuing the certificates which are required in this chapter. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The board of supervisors of the county shall establish a scale and method of collection of fees, to be paid for each certificate which is provided for in this chapter. The scale of fees which are established for the certificates shall be based upon the approximate cost of the ins…

The department may conduct surveys or investigations of any nursery, orchard, vineyard, agricultural commodity, agricultural appliance, farm, or other premises within the state liable to be infested or infected with any pest as defined in Section 5006 or disease, including any in…

The director may enter into an agreement with one or more organizations representing growers, shippers, manufacturers of agricultural commodities, nonprofit trade associations whose members market agricultural commodities, federal or state marketing order boards, and state commis…

There is in the state government the California Table Grape Commission. The commission shall comprise three producers from each district appointed by the secretary from the nominees selected pursuant to this article and one public member appointed pursuant to Section 65575.1. (Am…

The California Table Grape Commission shall be and is hereby declared and created a corporate body. It shall have the power to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with, and to have and possess all of the powers of a corporation. It shall adopt a corporate seal. Copies …

The commission may employ a president, a treasurer, and a secretary. The compensation of each officer shall be fixed by the commission and they shall serve at the pleasure of the commission with powers and duties that may be delegated to them by the commission. An officer employe…

A commissioner shall be an individual producer, or a partner or employee of a producer, who is actively engaged in growing fresh grapes within this state for a period of at least five years and is producing grapes subject to this chapter at the time of the election. No more than …

The regular terms of office of the commissioners shall be three years from the date of appointment by the secretary and until their successors are appointed. (Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 614, Sec. 12. (AB 482) Effective January 1, 2026.)

Each commissioner for each district shall be elected by a plurality of votes cast by producers in the district. Each producer who has grown fresh grapes in a district in the year preceding an election shall be entitled to one vote in the district. (Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 614…

The commission shall annually compile and maintain a list of eligible producers and certify the list to the secretary at least 30 days before the date set for a meeting to nominate commissioners to office. The list shall constitute the list of producers qualified to vote in the e…

(a) The commission, in preparing a list of producers to be used under this chapter, may omit from the list any person who makes only casual sales or sales as a result of activities other than a commercial farm business venture, as determined by the commission. A person who is omi…

Upon establishment of the lists of producers, the secretary shall call meetings of producers in each district, for the purpose of nominating persons to be appointed to the office of commissioner. At each district meeting for the nomination of commissioners, the secretary or a rep…

Upon expiration of the voting period, the secretary shall tabulate all votes and appoint a commissioner for each district. If all nominees are unsatisfactory to the secretary, the commission shall continue to submit lists of nominees to the secretary until the secretary has made …

Nonreceipt of notice of a meeting for the nomination of commissioners or of ballots shall not invalidate any such meeting, nomination or election. (Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1467.)

A person appointed to the office of commissioner by the secretary shall be selected pursuant to the nomination, election, and appointment procedures established by the commission in accordance with this chapter and approved by the secretary. (Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 614, Sec.…

In the event the office of a commissioner becomes vacant due to failure to qualify, resignation, disqualification, death or for any other reason, such position shall be filled by an election held by the commission. Nominations shall be received by the commission from the remainin…

A majority of the members of the commission at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business and the carrying out of the duties of said commission. Unless otherwise fixed by the commission, the vote of a majority of members present at a meeting at whic…

A commissioner shall not receive a salary. A commissioner may receive necessary traveling expenses and meal allowances, as approved by the commission. (Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 614, Sec. 24. (AB 482) Effective January 1, 2026.)

All moneys received by a person from the assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the commission shall be paid to the commission, shall be deposited into such banks as the commission may designate, and shall be disbursed by order of the comm…

The State of California shall not be liable for the acts of the commission or its contracts. Payment of all claims arising by reason of the administration of this chapter or acts of the commission shall be limited to the funds collected by the commission. No member of the commiss…

The powers and duties of the commission shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) To elect a chairperson, and from time to time other officers as it may deem advisable, and delegate duties to the officers as may appear advisable. (b) To adopt and from time …

(a) The commission shall continue to operate if, in a referendum conducted by the commission in which at least 40 percent of the total number of producers certified as marketing 40 percent of the total volume marketed by all producers on the list during the last completed marketi…

The commission shall appoint a shipper advisory committee of five members appointed from shippers at large to advise the commission on the exercise of its powers and duties under this chapter. Each member shall be an individual shipper, or a partner or employee of a shipper, who …

Members of the shipper advisory committee shall not receive a salary. Members of the shipper advisory committee may receive necessary traveling expenses and meal allowances, as approved by the commission. (Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 614, Sec. 29. (AB 482) Effective January 1, 20…

The public member of the commission shall be appointed by the secretary from nominees recommended by the commission. If all nominees are unsatisfactory to the secretary, the commission shall continue to submit lists of nominees to the secretary until the secretary has made a sele…

The public member of the commission shall represent the interests of the general public in all matters coming before the commission and shall have the same voting and other rights and immunities as other members of the commission. The public member shall have no financial interes…

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

The State Veterinarian may establish such quarantine, sanitary, and police regulations as may be necessary to prevent, circumscribe, or exterminate, any condition designated pursuant to Section 9562. (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 503, Sec. 1.5. Effective January 1, 2002.)

(a) Subject to the rights and procedures established pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to this code, the State Veterinarian shall impose a quarantine if he o…

It is unlawful for any person to move or allow to be moved any of the animals, food product from animals, vehicles, farm equipment, farm products, or other materials that are subject to restrictions established pursuant to Section 9562 or 9569 unless that person has first obtaine…

If it is necessary to restrict the movements of animals pursuant to Section 9562, the State Veterinarian may fix and proclaim the boundaries of a quarantine area in lieu of separate, individual orders issued to each owner pursuant to Section 9562. While the boundaries are in forc…

In addition to actions that may be directed by the State Veterinarian pursuant to Section 9562, the State Veterinarian may: (a) Regulate, restrict, or restrain the movements of persons, vehicles, farm equipment, farm and dairy products, and other property from or into the quarant…

If the State Veterinarian invokes Section 9562, and the importation of animals, animal products, or other property from any state, territory, or foreign country may transmit, carry or disseminate the illness, infection, pathogen, contagion, toxin, or condition designated pursuant…

A quarantine shall not be established by one county or city against another county or city on account of the existence of any disease or condition subject to the authority of the State Veterinarian pursuant to Section 9562 or 9569. (Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 503, Sec. 12. Effec…

(a) Any person who negligently or intentionally violates any state or federal law or regulation, including any quarantine regulation, by moving any animal or other article, which by virtue of being pest infested or disease infected, causes an infestation or infection of a pest, a…

All female dairy calves shall be vaccinated by an official veterinarian or an accredited veterinarian, who is authorized by the department, at such ages as are designated by the department. Male dairy calves and beef calves may, at the option of the owner, be vaccinated. (Enacted…

Each calf which is vaccinated pursuant to this chapter shall have an official tattoo placed in the right ear by the veterinarian who performs the service that shows the period within which the animal was vaccinated, or such other evidence of vaccination or identification as the d…

The owner of any calf which is to be vaccinated pursuant to this chapter shall, upon request of the department, provide the necessary facilities and assistance for such vaccination. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

If the owner or any person that is in charge of any dairy calf, after 10 days’ written notice by the department, refuses properly to confine in a corral or stanchions, any calf which is required to be vaccinated and identified pursuant to this chapter, the department may in such …

Any expense which is incurred by the department pursuant to Section 10354 is a lien upon the calf which is vaccinated and identified. Unless the amount of the lien is paid within 10 days after written notice of the amount of the lien is given by the department to the owner or per…

The vaccination of any bovine animal pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be by either an official veterinarian or an accredited veterinarian, who is authorized by the department. The director may charge a reasonable fee to cover the cost of any vaccination performed …

It is unlawful for any person to refuse to submit a dairy calf which is required to be vaccinated and identified pursuant to this chapter to such vaccination. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

It is unlawful for any person to remove any official mark which is required by this chapter, or to imitate or simulate such official mark. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

It is unlawful for any person, except a federal, state, county, or municipal officer or employee, in his official capacity, or an accredited veterinarian, to buy, possess, or use any device which is designed to produce a mark, stamp, or tattoo that simulates in design the officia…

The director, after investigation and hearing, shall adopt regulations by April 1, 1989, which govern the use of methyl bromide and chloropicrin as field fumigants. (Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 606, Sec. 2.)