Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

The department may, upon the request of a California agricultural interest which is pursuing a case under Section 301 or 302 of the Trade Act of 1974, gather and provide analytical assistance, information, and data in support of the case. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1358, Sec. 1.)…

The director shall establish a reasonable schedule of fees to cover the amount expended for providing analytical assistance, information, and data requested by the California agricultural interest pursuant to this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1358, Sec. 1.)

All state agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Finance and the Employment Development Department shall cooperate with the director in the compilation of pertinent statistical data and shall respond to requests by the director for information in a timely mann…

(a) Except as provided in this division, it is unlawful for any person to destroy, dig up, mutilate, or harvest any living native plant, or the living or dead parts of any native plant, except its fruit, without obtaining written permission from the landowner and a permit and any…

The commissioner of the county wherein the plants are located may issue a permit to a scientific or educational institution to harvest a definite number of plants listed in Section 80072 for scientific or educational purposes, if permission is obtained from the landowner on whose…

Permits issued for the removal of native plants shall be valid only for a stated period of time to allow the permittee to remove the specific amount of plants or wood stated in the permit, or the period of time stated by the landowner as part of the landowner’s permission, whiche…

No person shall knowingly make any false statement on any application for permits, wood receipts, or tags and seals. The application shall contain all of the following information: (a) The name, address, and telephone number of the applicant. (b) The amount and species of native …

Any permit issued pursuant to Section 80111, 80112, 80113, or 80114 shall expire when the tags and seals issued therewith have been attached to the plants covered by the permit and the plants are no longer in the possession of the permittee. (Added by renumbering Section 70684 by…

The director or commissioner may establish specific cutting, harvesting, and plant care criteria which shall include the most favorable and practical horticultural methods and seasons to assure the survivability of the plants and to assure compliance with existing local, state, a…

This division does not prevent any of the following: (a) The clearing of land for agricultural purposes, fire control measures, or required mining assessment work pursuant to federal or state mining laws. (b) The holding of a recreational event sanctioned by the Bureau of Land Ma…

Except as provided in Section 80072, no provision of this division prohibits any person from harvesting or possessing, for purposes other than resale, five or fewer native plants or from cutting, removing, harvesting, transporting, or possessing, for purposes other than resale, a…

Each county may enact ordinances not inconsistent with this division to control commercial harvesting in that county. (Added by renumbering Section 70688 by Stats. 1984, Ch. 144, Sec. 84.)

The issuing agency shall collect fees for the issuance of permits, tags and seals and wood receipts under this division, except from a landowner moving native plants from one of his or her properties to another, if the plants are not to be offered for sale. (Added by renumbering …

Any harvested native plant listed in Section 80072 or 80073, or added by the director pursuant to Section 80074, which is not exempt from the permit requirements of this division pursuant to Section 80118, found without a tag and seal securely and properly affixed thereto or for …

(a) The county assessor, in making the annual assessment of property in each and every year after the organization of the district, shall assess any parcel of real property with 25 or more citrus trees on it and enter as a separate item, on the assessment roll for each such parce…

Whenever acreage within the district is planted with citrus trees in such a fashion as to qualify as citrus acreage, the acreage is subject to assessment as provided in this part. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 904, Sec. 23.)

Whenever any citrus trees have been removed from any parcel of land included in the district, the owner of the parcel of land may file with the board an affidavit particularly describing the parcel of land, and setting forth the fact of the removal therefrom of the trees. Thereup…

(a) The board shall, on or before the first Monday in July of each year, file with the board of supervisors the final budget which sets forth all estimated expenditures of the district for the fiscal year commencing on the first day of July. A copy of the budget shall also at the…

The assessment authorized to be assessed and levied is hereby declared to be in the nature of a special assessment, and the Legislature hereby finds that the owners of all citrus trees will be benefited by the district to the same extent and in the same manner regardless of the a…

The tax so levied shall be computed and entered upon the assessment roll by the county auditor, and if the supervisors fail to levy the tax as required, the auditor shall do so. The tax shall be collected at the same time, and in the same manner as, and together with and not sepa…

The general provisions of the laws of this state, prescribing the manner of levying and collecting county taxes and the duties of the several county officers with respect to levying and collecting county taxes, are, so far as they are applicable and not in conflict with the speci…

The county treasury shall be the repository of all the moneys of the district. The county treasurer shall receive and receipt for all such moneys, and place the same to the credit of the district. He shall be responsible upon his official bond for the safekeeping and disbursement…

If a consolidated district includes parts of two or more counties, the repository of all money of the district shall be the county treasury of the county in which is located the largest area of the district. Money collected for the use of the district in any other county in which…

The county treasurer shall pay out money of the district only upon warrants of the county auditor drawn upon the order of the board of directors of the district signed by the chairman or vice chairman and attested by the secretary or assistant secretary. The county treasurer, wit…