California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - The California Spiny Lobster Commission

• Section 79160.
  (a) There is in the state government the California Spiny Lobster Commission. The commission shall be composed of six fishermen members and one public member. The...
• Section 79160.5.
  (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 79161.
  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 79161.5.
  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 79162.
  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 79162.5.
  Alternates for regular members may be elected in the same manner as members. An alternate, in the absence of the member for whom he or...
• Section 79163.
  A vacancy on the commission occurring by the failure of a person elected to the commission as a member or alternate to continue in his...
• Section 79163.5.
  Any vacancy on the commission occurring by the failure of the public member to continue in his or her position due to a change in...
• Section 79164.
  A fisherman shall not be eligible to be elected to the commission as a member or alternate if he or she has been convicted of...
• Section 79164.5.
  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 79165.
  (a) The term of office of all members and alternates on the commission, except ex officio members, shall be three years from the beginning of the...
• Section 79165.5.
  The commission may sue and be sued and enter into contracts. Copies of its proceedings, records, and acts, when authenticated, shall be admissible in evidence...
• Section 79166.
  A quorum of the commission shall be four voting members, including at least four fishermen members. Except as provided in Section 79196.5, the vote of...
• Section 79166.5.
  The secretary or his or her representative shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission and any committee meetings of the commission....
• Section 79167.
  A member or alternate of the commission or member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the commission shall not...
• Section 79167.5.
  (a) All moneys received by the commission or an agent of the commission from the assessments levied under this chapter or otherwise received by the commission...
• Section 79168.
  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