Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

The district shall have perpetual succession and may do all of the following: (a) Sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction. (b) Adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure. (c) Take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, lease, or …

Every district formed pursuant to this part has all of the powers prescribed by Section 8551 and other sections of this part, including the power to eradicate, remove, or prevent the spread of each and every citrus pest, regardless of any language in the petition for formation fo…

(a) A district may pay limited compensation to the owner of any citrus tree infected with citrus tristeza virus which is removed by the district or by the owner within 15 days after written notice of the infection to the owner by the district. The limited compensation shall not e…

In order to expedite the elimination of the source of citrus tristeza virus, if it appears to the board that the cost of testing, indexing, or retesting trees to determine infection may exceed the cost of removal, plus the payment of limited compensation, a district may, with the…

Any payment made to the owner or owners of citrus trees removed pursuant to Section 8553 or 8554 shall in no event exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per geographical acre. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 904, Sec. 17.)

The commissioner of the county in which the district is located shall, upon request of the board and without fee or charge, supervise and direct, in accordance with the best known and accepted methods as determined by the board, all activities undertaken by the district for the c…

The board shall, immediately after its qualification, formulate an effective plan based on the best known and accepted methods for the control and eradication of the citrus pests within the district. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 904, Sec. 19.)

After the final adoption of the plan, the board shall make or cause to be made an estimate of the cost of operating the plan for the next fiscal year beginning not sooner than 90 days thereafter. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Within 30 days after the receipt of the estimate, the board shall adopt a preliminary budget of expenditures for such fiscal year. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Upon the adoption of the preliminary budget, the board shall fix a time and place for holding a hearing thereon. The hearing shall not be less than 20 days, nor more than 40 days, after the adoption of the preliminary budget. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The board shall give notice of the time and place fixed for the hearing upon the preliminary budget by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the district. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks prior to the date set for the hearing. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The notice shall contain all of the following: (a) A summary of the proposed budget and shall refer to the original on file with the board for further particulars. (b) State that it is the intention to raise the amount of money required to meet the proposed budget by levying an a…

At any time not later than the hour set for hearing objections to the proposed budget, any owner of citrus acreage in the district may make written protest against the budget or any item in it. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 904, Sec. 21.)

At the time set for hearing protests, the board shall proceed to hear and pass upon all protests so made and its decision on the protests shall be final and conclusive. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution entered on its minutes make such changes in the proposed budget as it finds are proper and advisable. The tentative budget as so changed or modified shall be the budget of the district for the forthcoming fiscal year…

There may be added to the budget for the first fiscal year of the operation of the district an amount not in excess of 20 percent of the total amount of the budget to cover the preliminary expenses of the district and for the expenses of operation up to the beginning of the first…

For each fiscal year subsequent to the first year of operation of the district, the board shall adopt the final budget therefor in the same manner and at the same time that the budget for the first fiscal year was adopted. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)