CHAPTER 10. Cotton Pests Abatement Districts

Chapter 10 added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 191, Sec. 2.

§§ 6051–6085 · 35 sections

• § 6051 Cotton pests abatement districts may be organized and established by the board of supervisors of the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San…
• § 6052 In order to propose the organization of a cotton pests abatement district, a petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county where the…
• § 6053 Upon receipt of the petition, the board of supervisors shall direct the agricultural commissioner to create a register of all cottongrowers growing cotton…
• § 6054 The commissioner shall file the cottongrowers register within 60 days of receipt of the order from the board of supervisors or by March 1st, whichever date is…
• § 6055 The proponents of the formation of the district may, within 30 days of the receipt by the board of supervisors of the register of cottongrowers from the…
• § 6056 Upon receipt of the petition, the board of supervisors shall immediately refer the petition to the agricultural commissioner who shall examine it by reference…
• § 6057 At its meeting at which the certificate is received from the agricultural commissioner, or at its next meeting, regular or special, thereafter, the board of…
• § 6058 At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall make such changes in the boundaries of the proposed district as they determine to be advisable, and shall…
• § 6059 The board of supervisors shall, at the next regular or special meeting following the hearing upon the question of the organization of the proposed district,…
• § 6060 The board of supervisors shall, at the meeting at which the order declaring the district to be organized is made, appoint a board of five directors to…
• § 6061 Each director so appointed shall, in the manner provided by law, give official bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties in the amount which shall…
• § 6062 Any cotton pests abatement district organized pursuant to this chapter may do all of the following: (a) Have perpetual succession. (b) Sue and be sued for all…
• § 6063 The general control and management of each district shall be vested in a board of directors of five members. Directors shall be reimbursed for actual and…
• § 6064 The term of office of the directors shall be four years, except for those first appointed upon the organization of the district. The first appointees shall,…
• § 6065 In the event of a vacancy in the board of directors either by resignation, death, or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the board of…
• § 6066 The board of directors of each district shall have the power to appoint and to fix the compensation of a secretary of the district who shall keep all records…
• § 6067 Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, all acts of the board of directors shall be by resolution, and the adoption of a resolution shall require the…
• § 6068 The powers conferred upon any cotton pests abatement district and its board of directors by the provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to be in lieu…
• § 6069 The agricultural commissioner of the county in which any district is situated, may, without fee or charge, supervise and direct, in accordance with the best…
• § 6070 The board of supervisors in every county where a district has been organized and exists under the provisions of this chapter shall direct the agricultural…
• § 6071 The board of directors of each district shall, on or before the first Monday in February of each year, prepare and file with the board of supervisors of the…
• § 6072 The board of supervisors of the county may annually establish a fee for a permit to grow cotton within each cotton pests abatement district situated within the…
• § 6073 The permit fee shall be entered in the minutes of the board of supervisors who shall advise the board of directors of the district of the fee per acre required…
• § 6074 The treasury of the county shall be the repository of all the moneys of the district. The county treasurer shall receive and receipt for all of these moneys,…
• § 6075 The board of directors, when prohibiting the planting, growing, or maintenance of cotton plants within the boundaries of the district, shall notify persons…
• § 6076 In each cotton pests abatement district, a biennial election shall be held in March of each odd-numbered year by the county elections official of the county in…
• § 6077 The county elections official on or after the 29th day before the election shall mail a ballot, an identification envelope, and a stamped and addressed return…
• § 6078 The persons declared elected shall take the oath of office and file their official bonds with the county elections official on or before the first day of April…
• § 6079 Any owner of land devoted to the growing of cotton in the county where the district is situated may file a petition for inclusion in the district with the…
• § 6080 The board of directors of each cotton pests abatement district shall hold a regular meeting at least once each month at the time and place in the district…
• § 6081 Whenever the board of supervisors, by resolution, desires to dissolve the district, or whenever a petition, signed by not less than 25 percent of the…
• § 6082 At the expiration of 90 days after the election, the board of directors shall deliver on the basis of the ratio of the acreage devoted to cottongrowing in each…
• § 6083 All claims and accounts against the district which have not been settled by the board of directors within 90 days after the election authorizing the…
• § 6084 In the event that there are insufficient funds to discharge all claims and accounts brought pursuant to Section 6083, the board of supervisors shall, at the…
• § 6085 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Cotton Pests Abatement District Act.