Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

The contract shall provide for all of the following services which, when included in the department’s budget, shall be provided without charge: (a) Services performed in the course of a department-approved investigation of an animal health problem. (b) Department-approved service…

The contract shall specify the accounting procedures to be used and any reports necessary to assure compliance with state and university requirements.

It is intended that the contractual arrangement between the university and the department be of long-term duration. The department’s budget for the laboratories shall be reviewed annually. A Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Board is hereby established, consisting of representativ…

A member of the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Board is entitled to be paid his or her actual expenses which are incurred while engaged in performing his or her duties that are authorized by this article.

The budget for the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory shall be established as a line item in the budget of the department. The operating budget requests shall be submitted annually, and requests for funding of construction of facilities and special items of labor…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Act of 1986.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a growing movement in California and the nation to change farming techniques by adopting more resource-conserving, energy-efficient systems of agriculture. The objective of these changes is to produce agricultu…

The purpose of this article is to promote more research and education on sustainable agricultural practices, such as organic methods, biological control, and integrated pest managements, including the analysis of economic factors influencing the long-term sustainability of Califo…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Regents of the University of California establish the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program to support all of the following: (1) Competitive grants for research on topics described in Section 552. (2) The giving of…

(a) If the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program is established by the regents, the President of the University of California shall establish and appoint a Program Advisory Committee and a Technical Advisory Committee. (b) The duties of the Program Advisory Commi…

If the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program is established by the regents, it shall be established from existing resources.

This article shall be known as the Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995.

The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) California agriculture helps to feed the world and fuel our economy. Agriculture provides one out of every 10 jobs in California, and our state has led the nation in total farm production every year since 1948. During 1993, Ca…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this article: (a) “Agricultural activities” means those activities that generate products as specified in Section 54004. (b) “Department” means the Department of Food and Agriculture. (c) …

(a) The department shall establish and oversee a sustainable agriculture program. The program shall provide research, technical assistance, and incentive grants to promote agricultural practices that support climate resilience for farms and ranches and the well-being of ecosystem…

(a) The secretary shall convene an 11-member Scientific Advisory Panel on Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture to advise the secretary on the implementation of research, incentive, and technical assistance grant programs for sustainable agriculture, and to assist federal, state,…

(a) (1) The department, in consultation with the panel, shall establish and oversee a Healthy Soils Program. The program shall seek to optimize climate benefits while supporting the economic viability of California agriculture by providing incentives, including, but not limited t…

(a) There is hereby created the Climate Smart Agriculture Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, which shall consist of moneys made available from federal, state, industry, philanthropic, and private sources. (b) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Co…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Programs” means the Healthy Soils Program established pursuant to Section 569, the Alternative Manure Management Program, and the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program established by the department f…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the University of California Pest Research Act of 1990.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a need to develop and apply ecologically based pest management alternatives that are environmentally sound to prevent, control, and eradicate pests. (b) The continuation of pest control technology in agricultur…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this article. (a) “Center” means the University of California Center for Pest Research. (b) “Pest” means any of the following pests that are, or are likely to become, dangerous or de…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the responsibilities of the center include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) Establishing multidisciplinary, long-term research priorities for the University of California which focus on the application of ecologically bas…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the center, through its director, develop a list of recommended pest management research priorities for the University of California that emphasize and encourage the development and implementation of biological controls, sustainable ag…

To the extent that it is economically and scientifically feasible, it is the intent of the Legislature that the center shall award pest research funds obtained by the center on or after January 1, 1991, based upon a competitive application process and peer review. The center is e…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the University of California appoint a director of the center who is knowledgeable about pest management practices and research and alternative pest management techniques.

(a) The University of California shall prepare an annual report describing the activities of the center, major objectives and significant accomplishments of pest management research and extension programs at the University of California, and obstacles and opportunities toward dev…

Any contract which is made for the purpose of injuring competitors and destroying competition under which the seller of any agricultural product agrees to pay or allow any brokerage charge, rebate, discount, or other credit, except an allowance for variation in quality, condition…

Advertising allotments or discounts by a seller to a buyer for bona fide advertising expenditures, however, are not included within such transactions which are against public policy and void. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

It is a misdemeanor for any person to take any part in any transaction which is declared by this article to be against public policy and void whether as seller, buyer, buyer’s agent, employee, or subsidiary. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

It is unlawful for any person to destroy, in restraint of trade, any fowl, animal, vegetable, aquacultural product, or other stuff, product, or article which is customary food, or which is proper for food, for human beings, and is in fit sanitary condition to be used as such.

A person that receives any agricultural product, for sale on commission or for sale or exchange for the benefit of any other person, shall not destroy, abandon, discard as refuse, or dump, such product, without a permit in writing from the commissioner, county health officer, dir…

A copy of each such permit together with a copy of each such detailed statement shall, on the day such permit is issued, be served personally by the consignee, upon the consignor of the destroyed product, or in lieu of such personal service, shall on such day be served by the con…

If the center is established by the Regents of the University of California, it is the intent of the Legislature that the administrative costs of establishing the center shall be supported from existing resources of the university.

This article shall apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make any of these provisions applicable to the university.

The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Legislature supports the agricultural community’s efforts to promote choices of farming methods, practices, and crops. (b) The Legislature also recognizes the economic and other value to the State of California in diversif…

(a) When conflicts arise between sectors of agriculture, the secretary may designate agricultural coexistence working groups to work towards conflict resolution. (b) The members of a coexistence working group shall be appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the secretary. Eac…

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Beginning,” in reference to a farmer or rancher, means a person who has materially and substantially participated in the operation of a farm or ranch for 10 years or less. (b) “Limited resource” has the same …

(a) The Farm to Community Food Hub Program is hereby established for the purpose of piloting investments in the capital aggregation and distribution infrastructure needed to increase purchasing of local, environmentally sustainable, climate-smart, and equitably produced food by s…

(a) The program shall incentivize the creation and permanency of public-serving aggregation and distribution enterprises, known as farm to community food hubs, which may be operated by a nonprofit organization, school district, county office of education, cooperative, food and ag…

This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2034, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2034, deletes or extends that date.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 6502, 6504, 6506, or 6924, it is unlawful for any person to receive or bring into any county or locality of the state from another county or locality within the state any nursery stock, or any other plant, appliance, or thing subject to a f…

Any shipment of less than five pounds of agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed, or comprised of packages of less than three pounds of each kind of such seed, is exempt from the requirements of this article. The shipping permit which would be required by Article 2 (commencing wi…

Except as provided in Sections 6505, 6506, and 6923 any shipment of nursery stock which is moved from one county or locality to another county or locality which is accompanied by a valid nursery stock certificate or is sold at retail and delivered to the purchaser at a licensed s…

The commissioner may waive the exemption in Section 6504 by written notice to the director designating the kind of nursery stock, and the pest that may be transmitted thereby, which shall be held for inspection as provided in Section 6501, upon arrival in the county or locality d…

Any shipment of seed from an origin inspected warehouse is exempt from the requirements of this article.

Except as otherwise provided in Sections 6523 and 6524, if any shipment of any nursery stock, plant, or container of any nursery stock or plant, or appliance, or any host or other carrier of any pest which is brought into any county or locality in the state from another county or…

The officer who makes the inspection of a shipment which is described in Section 6521 may affix a warning tag or notice to the shipment and shall notify in writing the owner or bailee of the shipment to return the shipment to the point of shipment within the time limit which the …

If the pest may be exterminated or controlled by treatment or processing which is prescribed by the commissioner, and if the commissioner determines that the nature of the pest is such that no damage can be caused to agriculture through such treatment, processing, or procedure in…

If the commissioner determines that only a portion of the shipment is infested or infected with a pest, or that there is reasonable cause to believe that only a portion of the shipment may be so infested or infected, only such portion of the shipment may be destroyed, returned to…