California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - The California Pepper Commission

• Section 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 public member,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 this...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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.(Amended...
• Section 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....
• Section 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...
• Section 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018