ARTICLE 3. The California Pepper Commission [77251. - 77268.]
Article 3 added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 335, Sec. 1.
§§ 77251–77268 · 19 sections
- § 77251 (a) There is in the state government the California Pepper Commission. The commission shall be composed of five pepper producers, five pepper handlers, one…
- § 77252 (a) The secretary may require the commission to correct or cease any existing activity or function that is determined by the secretary not to be in the public…
- § 77253 The commission or the secretary may bring an action for judicial relief from the secretary’s written notice, or from noncompliance by the commission with the…
- § 77254 When the secretary is required to concur in a decision of the commission, the secretary shall give his or her response to the commission within 15 working days…
- § 77255 The commission shall reimburse the secretary for all expenditures incurred by the secretary in carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities pursuant to…
- § 77256 Each member of the commission, except ex officio members, shall have an alternate member to be elected in the same manner as the member. Except as provided in…
- § 77257 Any vacancy on the commission occurring by the failure of any person elected to the commission as a member or alternate member to continue in his or her…
- § 77258 Any vacancy on the commission occurring by the failure of the public member or alternate member to continue in his or her position due to a change in status…
- § 77259 Any producer member and his or her alternate member on the commission shall be an individual producer or an employee representing a producer who has a…
- § 77260 Any handler member and his or her alternate member on the commission shall have a financial interest in handling peppers for market, or be an employee of a…
- § 77260.5 Any at-large member elected to the commission, and his or her alternate shall have a financial interest in the California pepper industry and shall have all…
- § 77261 The public member and his or her alternate member on the commission shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges of any other member or alternate member,…
- § 77262 The term of office of all members and alternate members of the commission, except ex officio members, shall be three years, beginning on the first day of…
- § 77263 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,…
- § 77264 A quorum of the commission shall be seven voting members of the commission. An alternate producer or handler member, respectively, may serve in the absence of…
- § 77265 The secretary or his or her representative shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission and any committee meeting of the commission.
- § 77266 No member of the commission or member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the commission shall receive a salary. Each member of…
- § 77267 All funds received by any person from the assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the commission shall be deposited in…
- § 77268 The state is not 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…