ARTICLE 3. The California Table Grape Commission

Article 3 added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1467.

§§ 65550–65576 · 24 sections

§ 65550 There is in the state government the California Table Grape Commission. The commission shall comprise three producers from each district appointed by the…
§ 65551 The California Table Grape 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…
§ 65552 The commission may employ a president, a treasurer, and a secretary. The compensation of each officer shall be fixed by the commission and they shall serve at…
§ 65553 A commissioner shall be an individual producer, or a partner or employee of a producer, who is actively engaged in growing fresh grapes within this state for a…
§ 65555 The regular terms of office of the commissioners shall be three years from the date of appointment by the secretary and until their successors are appointed.
§ 65556 Each commissioner for each district shall be elected by a plurality of votes cast by producers in the district. Each producer who has grown fresh grapes in a…
§ 65559 The commission shall annually compile and maintain a list of eligible producers and certify the list to the secretary at least 30 days before the date set for…
§ 65559.5 (a) The commission, in preparing a list of producers to be used under this chapter, may omit from the list any person who makes only casual sales or sales as a…
§ 65562 Upon establishment of the lists of producers, the secretary shall call meetings of producers in each district, for the purpose of nominating persons to be…
§ 65563 Upon expiration of the voting period, the secretary shall tabulate all votes and appoint a commissioner for each district. If all nominees are unsatisfactory…
§ 65564 Nonreceipt of notice of a meeting for the nomination of commissioners or of ballots shall not invalidate any such meeting, nomination or election.
§ 65566 A person appointed to the office of commissioner by the secretary shall be selected pursuant to the nomination, election, and appointment procedures…
§ 65567 In the event the office of a commissioner becomes vacant due to failure to qualify, resignation, disqualification, death or for any other reason, such position…
§ 65568 A majority of the members of the commission at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business and the carrying out of the duties of…
§ 65569 A commissioner shall not receive a salary. A commissioner may receive necessary traveling expenses and meal allowances, as approved by the commission.
§ 65570 All moneys received by a person from the assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the commission shall be paid to the…
§ 65571 The State of California shall not be liable for the acts of the commission or its contracts. Payment of all claims arising by reason of the administration of…
§ 65572 The powers and duties of the commission shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) To elect a chairperson, and from time to time other…
§ 65573 (a) The commission shall continue to operate if, in a referendum conducted by the commission in which at least 40 percent of the total number of producers…
§ 65574 The commission shall appoint a shipper advisory committee of five members appointed from shippers at large to advise the commission on the exercise of its…
§ 65575 Members of the shipper advisory committee shall not receive a salary. Members of the shipper advisory committee may receive necessary traveling expenses and…
§ 65575.1 The public member of the commission shall be appointed by the secretary from nominees recommended by the commission. If all nominees are unsatisfactory to the…
§ 65575.2 The public member of the commission shall represent the interests of the general public in all matters coming before the commission and shall have the same…
§ 65576 It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers or employees of producers appointed to the commission pursuant to this article…