CHAPTER 4. Powers and Duties of the District [8551. - 8568.]
Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
§§ 8551–8568 · 18 sections
- § 8551 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…
- § 8552 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,…
- § 8553 (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…
- § 8554 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…
- § 8555 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…
- § 8556 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…
- § 8557 The board shall, immediately after its qualification, formulate an effective plan based on the best known and accepted methods for the control and eradication…
- § 8558 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…
- § 8559 Within 30 days after the receipt of the estimate, the board shall adopt a preliminary budget of expenditures for such fiscal year.
- § 8560 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,…
- § 8561 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…
- § 8562 The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks prior to the date set for the hearing.
- § 8563 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…
- § 8564 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…
- § 8565 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…
- § 8566 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…
- § 8567 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…
- § 8568 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…