California Fish and Game Code CHAPTER 6 - Disease Control

• Section 15500.
  Upon the recommendation of the department and after consultation with the Aquaculture Disease Committee created pursuant to this chapter, the commission shall compile a list...
• Section 15501.
  The department may enter, under an inspection warrant issued pursuant to Title 5 (commencing with Section 1822.50) of Part 3 of the Code of Civil...
• Section 15502.
  The director, in consultation with the Aquaculture Industry Advisory Committee and the Interagency Committee for Aquaculture Development, shall appoint an 11-member Aquaculture Disease Committee consisting...
• Section 15503.
  The Aquaculture Disease Committee may recommend regulations to the commission designed to safeguard wild and cultured organisms from the list of harmful organisms compiled pursuant...
• Section 15504.
  Regulations recommended under Section 15503 and adopted by the commission may include all of the following:(a) Routine monitoring procedures.(b) Standardized diagnostic procedures.(c) A requirement for the confirmation of...
• Section 15505.
  If any of the diseases or parasites listed pursuant to Section 15500 is found to exist which the director, in consultation with the Aquaculture Disease...
• Section 15506.
  Except for those diseases in the list compiled pursuant to Section 15500, infected plants or animals shall not be quarantined or destroyed, unless the director,...
• Section 15507.
  If the director, in consultation with the Aquaculture Disease Committee, finds that a disease is present in a nearby government operated facility or in nearby...
• Section 15508.
  Reports of those diseases and parasites compiled pursuant to Section 15500 shall be immediately forwarded by the director to the Aquaculture Disease Committee and shall...
• Section 15509.
  No person may move, or allow to be moved, any of the aquatic plants or animals which are subject to a quarantine established pursuant to...
• Section 15510.
  If the director determines that any disease designated pursuant to Section 15500 exists among domestic aquatic plants and animals, or that aquatic plants and animals...
• Section 15512.
  (a) If aquatic plants or animals are destroyed pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 15505, the owner shall be promptly paid from the General Fund an...
• Section 15513.
  Claims against the department arising under this chapter may be submitted pursuant to Section 905.2 of the Government Code.(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1486, Sec.
• Section 15514.
  No claim arising under this chapter shall be paid where the director, in consultation with the Aquaculture Disease Committee, finds that the claimant’s management practices...
• Section 15516.
  The owner of an aquaculture product who does not diligently pursue the eradication of a disease from its facility when ordered to do so by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018