California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 21 - Actions and Penalties

• Section 59231.
  Any action for any penalty or other remedy which is prescribed under any provision of this chapter shall be commenced within three years from the...
• Section 59232.
  The penalties, remedies, procedures, and actions which are prescribed by this article apply in instances of any violation or complaint of any violation of any...
• Section 59233.
  Every person that violates any provision of this chapter or any provision of any marketing order which is duly issued by the director pursuant to...
• Section 59234.
  Any person that violates this chapter or any marketing order which is duly issued by the director and in effect pursuant to this chapter, or...
• Section 59234.5.
  (a) When the director makes a determination that a marketing program assessment payment due pursuant to this chapter is deficient as to the payment due, the...
• Section 59235.
  In addition to such civil penalty, any person that knowingly exceeds any quota or allotment or marketable percentage fixed for him under any marketing order,...
• Section 59236.
  If the use by a producer or handler of a particular emblem, label, certificate, or other distinctive designation of grade, quality, or condition, except the...
• Section 59237.
  It is a violation of this chapter for any person to willfully render or furnish a false or fraudulent report, statement, or record which is...
• Section 59238.
  It is a violation of this chapter for any person that is engaged in the handling or processing of any commodity, or in the wholesale...
• Section 59239.
  It is a violation of this chapter for any handler to receive, handle, or have in his possession any commodity which is regulated by a...
• Section 59240.
  The director on his own motion may, or shall upon complaint of any interested party which charges any violation of any provision of this chapter...
• Section 59241.
  If the matter is referred directly by the director to the Attorney General or any district attorney, such officer shall thereupon bring an appropriate action...
• Section 59242.
  If an administrative hearing is called by the director, the director shall cause a copy of such complaint, together with a notice of the time...
• Section 59243.
  The hearing shall be held at one of the following places which is selected by the director:(a) The city or place in which the principal place...
• Section 59244.
  At the time and place which is designated for such administrative hearing, the director shall hear the parties to the complaint and shall enter in...
• Section 59245.
  If the director finds from the administrative hearing that a violation has occurred, he shall so enter his findings and notify the parties to such...
• Section 59246.
  The Attorney General, or any district attorney, shall upon complaint by the director or any other person, or may, upon his own initiative, if, after...
• Section 59247.
  The Attorney General shall upon complaint by the director or may, upon his own initiative, if, after examination of the complaint and evidence he believes...
• Section 59248.
  If it appears to the court upon any application for a temporary restraining order, or upon the hearing of any order to show cause why...
• Section 59249.
  In any suit brought by the Attorney General to enforce any provision of this chapter, any marketing order which is issued by the director and...
• Section 59250.
  Any such action may be commenced either in the county where defendant resides, or where any act or omission, or part of the act or...
• Section 59251.
  The penalties and remedies which are prescribed in this article with respect to any violation mentioned in this article are concurrent and alternative, and neither...
• Section 59252.
  In lieu of other procedures which are provided in this article, the director may, if he finds that any person has exceeded any quota, allotment,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018