Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

It is unlawful for any person to refuse to permit the entry into and inspection of any premises wherein any livestock drug is manufactured or sold for the taking of samples of such drug. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1224.)

It is unlawful for any person to sell any livestock drug except in the container in which it is packaged by the manufacturer or distributor or to sell any such drug unless its package bears the label of the manufacturer or distributor. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1224.)

It is unlawful for any person to make any false or misleading representation which relates to any livestock drug, whether such representation is communicated orally, graphically, pictorially, or otherwise. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1224.)

It is unlawful for any livestock owner or his or her agent to sell or dispose of treated livestock or livestock products within the specified withdrawal period without first notifying the buyer that the livestock or products have been treated. The notification shall be in a form …

The director may seize and hold any livestock drug which he has reasonable cause to believe is in violation of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations adopted pursuant to it. The director shall continue to hold the livestock drug until such time as the requirements of t…

It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, distribute, sell, or use any livestock drug without complying with the provisions of this chapter and the regulations which are adopted pursuant to it. (Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1224.)

(a) It is unlawful for any livestock owner or agent to sell or dispose of any livestock or livestock carcasses which within 48 hours after the buyer takes possession have drug residues in excess of allowable federal or state tolerances. In addition to any other penalties imposed …

(a) It is unlawful to sell or dispose of a bob veal calf for the purposes of slaughter without first affixing to the animal a producer identification number approved by the director. (b) For purposes of this chapter, “bob veal calf” means a bovine animal 21 days of age or less or…

(a) It is unlawful to sell or dispose of a dairy cull cow without first affixing to the animal a producer identification number issued by the director. (b) For purposes of this chapter, “cull cow” means a female bovine animal 21 days of age or more, which is sold or disposed of f…

For the purposes of Article 2 (commencing with Section 18691) of this chapter, the director may exempt the operations of any person from inspection or other requirements of this chapter to the extent such operations would be exempt from the corresponding requirements under the Fe…

The director shall exempt from inspection the slaughtering and preparation by any person of any livestock or poultry of his own raising, exclusively for use by him, members of his household, his nonpaying guests, or employees, and may exempt any other operation which the director…

The director shall not provide inspection under this chapter at any establishment for the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of any livestock product or poultry product that is not intended for use as human food. The product, unless naturally inedible by humans,…

(a) This chapter shall apply to a retail store only to the same extent as the federal acts and regulations issued thereunder are applicable to retail stores, except as provided in subdivision (b). (b) No livestock product or poultry product shall be prepared at any such retail st…

The fee for each application for recording a brand is seventy dollars ($70). (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 406, Sec. 1. (AB 732) Effective January 1, 2016.)

The fee entitles the applicant to the recordation of one brand, one duplicate brand registration certificate, and the right to use the brand until the following April 1st. The fee for each additional duplicate is ten dollars ($10). (Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 267, Sec. 2. Effect…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 20755, the owner of a brand shall, on or before April 30 after its recordation, pay to the bureau a biennial period renewal fee of seventy dollars ($70) for the right to continue to use the brand. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 406, Sec. 2. (…

The owner of a recorded brand may, on or before April 30 of any year, pay in advance to the bureau a sum that is a multiple of seventy dollars ($70). The payment entitles him or her to use the brand for a minimum of two years, but not to exceed 10 years, at the rate of thirty-fiv…

If the right to use a brand is suspended for failure to pay the renewal fee, it may be reinstated within one year from the date of suspension upon the payment of the biennial renewal fee of seventy dollars ($70) plus a twenty-five dollar ($25) penalty fee. (Amended by Stats. 2015…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the fee for rerecording a forfeited or canceled brand shall be one hundred forty dollars ($140). This amount shall accompany the application to rerecord. (b) When a penalty has been paid pursuant to Section 20222, within 30 days of the d…

The fee for recording the transfer of a brand, including a new certificate, is seventy dollars ($70). (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 406, Sec. 6. (AB 732) Effective January 1, 2016.)

If the applicant fails to submit within 60 days of the date of receipt by the department of application for recording or re-recording a brand, or for recording the transfer of a brand, any information or document which is required by this chapter, the application lapses. The appl…

The fees or penalties prescribed in this article may be raised or lowered under one of the following conditions: (a) Lowered by the director, based upon a finding and recommendation of the Livestock Identification Advisory Board, whenever they determine that the cost of administe…

Counties may, subject to the approval of the director, contract, one with the other, for the maintenance by one, or some of them, of the approved milk inspection service within the limits of the other as will best carry out this division and avoid duplication. (Amended by Stats. …

Except as otherwise provided in Section 41552, any person, firm, company, or corporation that violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one thousand dollars (…

A person shall not be convicted of a violation of any provision of this chapter if such person establishes a guaranty, which is signed by the person that resides or is lawfully engaged in business in the state, by or for whom the canned fruit, including olives, in question were o…

One-half of all fines which are collected by any court or judge, for the violations of the provisions of this chapter shall be paid to the State Treasurer for credit to the General Fund. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

This chapter does not apply to the transportation of cottonseed through the district established by this chapter, from a point outside of the district to a destination outside of the district. (Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 592. Conditionally inoperative on January 1, 2014, as prescr…

(a) Handlers of seed for the production of rice identified pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 55040, shall annually pay to the commission an assessment in an amount not to exceed five dollars ($5) per hundredweight (cwt.). (b) The first in-state handler of paddy or brown rice…

The assessment shall be paid in the time and manner specified by the commission. No assessment shall be paid by any person for any rice seed for which the assessment has been previously paid. Assessments not paid when due shall be subject to a penalty of 10 percent of the assessm…

The commission shall use all funds received pursuant to this chapter for the purposes of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 579, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)

The commission shall publish an annual report of its activities including an accounting of the use of assessments collected pursuant to this chapter. The report, in aggregate form, shall be made available to any person upon request. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 579, Sec. 1. Effecti…

The commission may, if it finds a violation of this chapter or any rule or regulation has occurred, or in the event of nonpayment of any assessment, bring a proceeding as provided under Section 66644 in its name for collection of such assessment, civil penalties, or for injunctiv…

Any person aggrieved by any action of the commission may appeal to the director. The director shall review the record of the proceedings before the commission. If the director finds that the record shows by substantial evidence that the commission’s action was not an abuse of dis…

Any person subject to this chapter and aggrieved by any provision of this chapter or by any rule or order of the commission shall comply with and exhaust the appeal procedure prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commission, before application is made to any court for re…

Any proceeding by the commission to enforce this chapter or by a handler applying for relief from rules, orders, or regulations of the commission may be commenced either in the county in which the defendant or any of the defendants reside or in which any act or omission or part t…

It shall be a misdemeanor to do any of the following: (a) For any person to violate or aid in the violation of this chapter or any rule or regulation of the commission. (b) For any person to willfully render or furnish a false or fraudulent report, statement, or record required b…

The commission shall have the right to inspect the premises, books, records, documents, and all other instruments of any carrier, railroad, truck, boat, grower, shipper, handler, dealer, or retailer, to the extent the premises, books, records, documents and other instruments pert…

A violation of this chapter or of any regulation which is adopted by the director pursuant to this chapter is an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) for the first violation. A second or subsequent violation of this chapter is a misdemeanor…

(a) The director may, after a hearing, refuse to issue or renew, or may suspend or revoke a livestock drug registration or restricted drug license for any violation of this chapter or any regulation which is adopted pursuant thereto. (b) Upon calling a hearing, the director shall…

It is unlawful for any person to slaughter any livestock or poultry, or prepare any livestock or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, at any establishment preparing such article solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this c…

It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any article required to be inspected under this chapter, unless such article has been inspected and passed, or any livestock, poultry, livest…

It is unlawful for any person to do, with respect to any livestock, poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is capable of use as human food, any act while it is being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to …

It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in ac…

It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision of the regulations promulgated by the director under this chapter. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.)

It is unlawful for any brand manufacturer, printer, or other person to cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation the…