Title FAC — California Food & Agric. Code

(a) The commission may commence civil actions and utilize all remedies provided in law or equity for the collection of assessments and for obtaining a writ of attachment, specific performance, or injunctive relief regarding this chapter. The commission may seek a writ of attachme…

The commission shall be entitled to receive reimbursement for any reasonable attorney’s fees and other related costs, including, but not limited to, investigative costs, involved in enforcement of this chapter.

The department may investigate complaints referred to it by the commission regarding alleged violations of this chapter. The department may enter and inspect the premises of any person subject to this chapter for the purpose of inspecting rice, rice processing, or handling activi…

The department may commence civil actions and utilize all remedies provided in law or equity for obtaining a writ of attachment, specific performance, or injunctive relief for violations of this chapter.

(a) The department may levy a civil penalty against any person who is grossly negligent or willfully violates this chapter in an amount of not more than fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for each violation. Each day a grossly negligent or willful violation of this chapter contin…

(a) The department shall be entitled to receive reimbursement for any reasonable attorney’s fees and other related costs, including, but not limited to, investigative costs, involved in enforcement of this chapter. (b) The department shall use all funds received pursuant to this …

The department may, with the approval of the Department of General Services, purchase or otherwise acquire real property. It may construct and equip buildings upon the property and make improvements to the property, buildings, and equipment.

Any building or improvement that is constructed by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be primarily for the occupancy of the department and its commissions, divisions, bureaus, advisory boards, and services.

The building or improvement shall be administered and supervised by the department in accordance with rules and regulations which are established by the department and approved by the Department of General Services. Such rules and regulations shall be comparable to those for the …

The Department of Agriculture Building Fund is continued in existence. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

(a) When there are moneys appropriated to the department, excluding General Fund appropriations, that are not required to meet any demand that has accrued or may accrue against the moneys, the Controller, upon the order of the secretary, shall transfer the sum as may be designate…

All rentals which are collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Agriculture Building Fund. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

The moneys in the Department of Agriculture Building Fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, to carry out this chapter, including the costs of improvements, modifications, maintenance, repairs, and other reasonable and necessary expense…

Money shall not be transferred pursuant to Section 622 to the Department of Agriculture Building Fund if it will interfere with the administrative purposes for which the money was collected.

(a) The secretary may do any and all things that are necessary to protect the investment or use, including the purchase of insurance against the loss of, or damage to, the property, or the loss of its use and occupancy, of any property and buildings and appurtenant facilities und…

Except as otherwise provided in Section 62803, or unless the parties agree otherwise, every contract for the sale of edible nuts shall be in writing and shall state the full purchase price in a definite sum which is to be paid in accordance with the terms of the contract and, if …

Any purchaser of edible nuts which are delivered pursuant to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of the act amending this section in the 1983–84 Regular Session of the Legislature and which is in violation of this article is liable to the seller for the reasona…

This article is not applicable to any contract between any member of any cooperative agricultural marketing association, which is operating under, and by virtue of, the laws of this state, any other state, the District of Columbia, or the United States, and the cooperative agricu…

The commissioner of each county, under the supervision of the director, shall enforce this article insofar as it relates to the keeping of the records which are required to be kept by this article. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Every person that purchases English walnuts or almonds for purposes of processing or resale from any person, except a licensed dealer, broker, commission merchant, agricultural cooperative, or wholesaler, shall keep a record of the name and address of the person from whom each lo…

The record and statement required to be made by this article shall be kept for one year from the date of purchase or delivery, whichever is later, and shall be made available for inspection upon request by any peace officer. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Any violation of this article is a misdemeanor. (Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

Any building or improvement that is controlled by the department may contain space in excess of the requirements of the department. Until needed, the excess space may be leased or let by the department at such rental and upon such terms and conditions as are approved by the Depar…

The department may contract with the Department of General Services to handle the rentals of any space over and above that which is required for the department and to furnish general supervision and maintenance in any building or improvement that is controlled by the department.

The secretary may allocate space to the commissions, divisions, bureaus, advisory boards, and services that comprise the department or agencies that are subject to its jurisdiction in any building controlled by the department. The secretary may charge a rental for the space.

The occupancy of any space that is not required by the department for the commissions, divisions, bureaus, advisory boards, and services specified in Section 654 shall be confined to that of other functions of the department, of other state agencies, of official agencies cooperat…

The inability of lettuce shippers to maintain or expand present markets for iceberg lettuce results in an unreasonable and unnecessary economic waste and accompanying loss of employment to the California economy.

These conditions vitally concern the health, peace, safety, and general welfare of the people of this state. It is, therefore, in the public interest to protect and enhance the reputation of California iceberg lettuce in intrastate, interstate, and foreign markets, and to otherwi…

The promotional, educational, economic and marketing research, and any similar activities authorized by this chapter will serve to expand existing markets and create new markets for California iceberg lettuce and to prevent agricultural waste and maintain employment, and are, the…

It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state to aid in preventing economic waste in the marketing of iceberg lettuce, to develop more efficient and equitable methods in marketing, and to maintain job security for workers in iceberg lettuce and related industries.

The production and marketing of fresh California iceberg lettuce for human consumption is declared to be affected with a public interest. The provisions of this chapter are enacted in the exercise of the police power of this state for the purpose of protecting the health, peace, …

Notwithstanding any other laws to the contrary, in the event a commodity or marketing agreement or marketing order under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Agriculture, or other appropriate federal agency, is created by referendum or under the applicable laws and…

A commission form of administration created by this chapter is designed to deal with the broad fields of advertising, promotion, and marketing research.

As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meaning set forth hereafter unless otherwise apparent from the context.

“Advertising and sales promotion” means, in addition to the ordinarily accepted meaning thereof, trade promotion and activities for the prevention, modification, or removal of trade barriers which restrict the free flow of iceberg lettuce to market and may include the presentatio…

“Books and records” means any book, record, account, contract, document, memorandum, paper, correspondence, or other written datum reflecting operations under this chapter.

“Cartwright Act” means the act set forth in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16700), Part 2, Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.

“Cause to be produced” means the proprietary functions of initiating and supervising iceberg lettuce production.

“Commission” means the California Iceberg Lettuce Commission.

“Commissioner” means any member of the commission.

“Districts” consist of: District 1.(Blythe area) Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. District 2.(Imperial Valley area) Imperial County. District 3.(Oxnard-Santa Maria area) Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties. District 4.(Salina…

“Director” means the Director of Food and Agriculture.

“Fiscal year,” means the period beginning April 1 of any year and extending through March 31 of the following year.

“Grower” means any person engaged within this state in the business of producing or causing to be produced iceberg lettuce.

“Grower-handler” means any person who is engaged within the state in the business of producing or causing to be produced, through contractual agreements or other legal relationships and having an ownership therein, iceberg lettuce, and who in addition thereto prepares for market …

“Grower-shipper” has the same meaning as grower-handler.

“Handle” means to perform any of the functions of a handler.

“Handler,” unless otherwise specified, has the same meaning as grower-handler as defined in Section 66532 and secondary handler as defined in Section 66542.5. “Handler” also means any person who engages in the marketing of iceberg lettuce on behalf of a grower, whether as an owne…

“Iceberg lettuce” for purposes of this chapter means varieties of lettuce produced in California of the types which are distinguished as “crisphead” in that certain publication entitled “Lettuce Production in the United States, Agricultural Handbook No. 221,” August 1974 revision…

“Market” or ”marketing” means to sell, ship, or otherwise distribute iceberg lettuce in the commercial channels of trade in a manner consistent with this chapter.