Title FAC, California Food & Agric. Code

(a) No person who is connected with, or employed in, a milk products plant and liable to come in contact with milk or milk products or the milk products plant operations, shall be afflicted with any communicable disease or in a condition to disseminate the germs of any communicab…

No equipment or apparatus shall be installed or maintained in such manner so as to prevent thorough and adequate cleaning of walls and floors. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

A room in which cheese and cheese products are cut, wrapped, and packaged into individual consumer packages shall be maintained in accordance with the sanitary requirements of this chapter. However, foods which do not affect the flavor or quality of the cheese and cheese products…

All of the provisions of this chapter apply to any building or structure in which any product resembling a milk product is manufactured, processed, or compounded. However, food which does not affect the flavor or quality of the products and which is not maintained in accordance w…

The director shall adopt regulations providing for the healthfulness and standard of purity of products resembling milk products. The regulations shall be those reasonably necessary to ensure that the products are safe for human consumption under the circumstances under which the…

When the use of market milk or any derivative or component of market milk is required in any milk product, any fluid milk, fluid skim milk, fluid cream, milk fat or milk solids used in an imitation milk product imitating the milk product shall be market milk. (Amended by Stats. 1…

Nondairy frozen dessert shall comply with the following standards: (a) The product shall contain not less than one-half of 1 percent of edible oil or fat other than milk fat. (b) The product shall contain 1.3 pounds of food solids per gallon at the time of sale to the consumer. (…

Nondairy frozen dessert mix is a product in a final, dry, or concentrated form used in the manufacture of nondairy frozen dessert. It shall comply with all the requirements of nondairy frozen dessert. It shall have been pasteurized or otherwise subjected to a process that has bee…

The 22nd District Agricultural Association may expend up to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) annually for the operation of a fair pursuant to Section 4001 for the purposes enumerated therein from funds received by the district from a lease of district property for …

The State Race Track Leasing Commission shall prepare a master plan for the long-range comprehensive development and improvement of, and construction upon, the property of the 22nd District Agricultural Association. Such plan shall prescribe the amounts which may be expended for …

The Director of Finance may enter into an agreement prior to September 1, 1976, with the State Race Track Leasing Commission and the 22nd District Agricultural Association to commit the state to advance to the Architecture Revolving Fund a sum of not to exceed six hundred thousan…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, an officer, employee, operator, lessee, or licensee of the 22nd District Agricultural Association, as defined in Section 3873, shall not contract for, authorize, or allow the sale of any firearm, ammunition, or firearm precursor part on the prop…

If any pest is found to exist upon any property which has been deeded to the state for nonpayment of taxes, the notice of abatement shall be served by recording and mailing a copy of the notice to the State Controller, and either by personally serving or by mailing a copy of it, …

If the expense of abatement becomes a lien on such property, as provided in Sections 5429 to 5432, inclusive, and the property is redeemed or sold to a private person at a tax sale, the action to foreclose the lien shall be commenced within 120 days after the redemption or sale. …

If no action to foreclose is commenced within 120 days subsequent to the redemption or sale of the property, the lien ceases to exist. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

If the property is acquired by the state, or by any municipal corporation or political subdivision, and the right of redemption is terminated, the lien terminates at the time the right of redemption is terminated. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

This chapter does not apply to or include any nonprofit cooperative association which is organized and operating pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 54001) or pursuant to similiar laws of any other states, the District of Columbia, or the United States. This chapter al…

For the purposes of trading in cattle, this chapter does not apply to or include any person who is bonded under the federal Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 (7 U.S.C. Sec. 181, et seq.) who is engaged in the business of buying or selling cattle. (Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 696, Se…

(a) The California Agricultural Export Promotion Account is hereby created in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the money in the account is continuously appropriated to the secretary to support export promotional an…

The secretary may enter into goods and services contracts using funds from the California Agricultural Export Promotion Account for the activities described in subdivision (c) of Section 58582 and using federal funds authorized for international activities, as necessary. Notwiths…

There is in the state government the California Kiwifruit Commission, a state agency operating under authority of this chapter. The commission shall be composed of eight kiwifruit producers who are not handlers, one producer member-at-large, one handler, and one public member. Ei…

The secretary may require the commission to correct or cease any existing or proposed activity or function that is determined by the secretary to be in violation of this chapter or not to be in the public interest. If the commission refuses or fails to cease those activities or f…

The commission or secretary may bring an action for judicial relief from the secretary’s written notice, or from noncompliance by the commission with the written notice, in a court of competent jurisdiction, which may issue a temporary restraining order, permanent injunction, or …

The commission shall reimburse the secretary for all expenditures incurred by the secretary in carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities under this chapter. However, the court may, if it finds that the secretary acted arbitrarily or capriciously in restricting the activ…

Each member of the commission, except the ex officio members, has an alternate member, who is elected in the same manner as the member. An alternate member, in the absence of the member for whom he or she is alternate, serves in place of the member on the commission, and has, and…

Any vacancy on the commission including, but not limited to, the failure of any person elected to the commission as a member or alternate member to continue in his or her position due to a change in status making the member ineligible to serve, or through death, removal, or resig…

Any producer member or his alternate on the commission shall be an individual or an employee representing a producer who has a financial interest in producing, or causing to be produced, kiwifruit for market. The qualifications of a producer member and an alternate producer membe…

The term of office of all commissioners, except any ex officio member, shall be for two years from the date of their election and until their successors are qualified; provided, however, that of the first members of the commission, one-half shall serve for one year, and one-half …

The 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 may adopt a corporate seal. Copies of its proceedings, recor…

A quorum of the commission shall be any seven voting commissioners. Except as provided in Sections 68030 and 68132, the vote of a majority of members present at a meeting at which there is a quorum shall constitute the act of the commission. (Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1027.)

The secretary or the secretary’s representatives shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission and any committee meeting of the commission. However, the secretary shall not be entitled to attend an executive session of the commission called for the purpose of di…

When the secretary is required to concur in a decision of the commission, the secretary shall indicate his or her response to the commission within 15 working days from notification of the decision. The response may be a request that additional information be provided. (Amended b…

No commissioner or member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the commission shall receive a salary. Each commissioner, except ex officio government members, and each member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the comm…

All moneys received by any person from the assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the commission, shall be deposited in such banks as the commission may designate and shall be disbursed by order of the commission through such agent or agen…

The state shall not be liable for the acts of the commission or its contracts. Payments 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 commission or altern…

The Agricultural Pest Control Advisory Committee, which was established by Chapter 1276 of the Statutes of 1971, is hereby abolished. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 459, Sec. 4.)

There is in the department an Agricultural Pest Control Advisory Committee, appointed by the secretary or director, consisting of the following members: (a) One member representing agricultural pest control advisers. (b) One member representing agricultural pest control businesse…

The public member shall be appointed to the committee by the director from nominees recommended by the committee. The public member shall represent the interests of the general public in all matters coming before the committee and shall have the same voting and other rights and i…

It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that members appointed to the Agricultural Pest Control Advisory Committee pursuant to this article are intended to represent and further the interest of a particular agricultural industry concerned, and that this r…

Except as provided in Section 12046, the term of office of the members of the committee is three years. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 459, Sec. 4.)

Initial appointments to the committee shall be made as follows: (a) Representatives for the public, the California Community College system, the State University system, and the pest control maintenance gardeners shall be appointed for one year. (b) Representatives for pest contr…

The committee shall be advisory to the director in all matters concerning the licensing, certification, and regulation of persons and firms licensed or certified pursuant to this division, and shall meet on the call of the director. (Added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 459, Sec. 4.)

There is in state government a Feed Inspection Advisory Board consisting of eight persons appointed by the director, who are licensed under this chapter, and who are subject to payment of the inspection tonnage tax in accordance with this chapter. The director may appoint one add…

It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that persons appointed to the Feed Inspection Advisory Board pursuant to this article are intended to represent and further the interest of a particular agricultural industry concerned, and that such representation …

The term of office of the members of the board is three years. When the board is first appointed, two members shall be appointed for three years, two members for two years, and one member of one year. Thereafter appointment shall be for full three-year terms. Vacancies shall be f…

Except as otherwise provided in Sections 14978 and 14979, the board shall be advisory to the director and may make recommendations on all matters pertaining to this chapter, including, but not limited to, the inspection and enforcement program, annual budget, necessary fees to pr…