California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 2.5 - Agriculture Trust Fund

• Section 230.
  As used in this article:(a) “Advisory body” means the advisory body for each individual agriculture program.(b) “Agriculture programs” means the programs specified in Section 221, Chapter 5...
• Section 231.
  The Legislature finds and declares that the maintenance of agriculture funded programs described in subdivision (b) of Section 230 is necessary to ensure the consuming...
• Section 232.
  The Agriculture Trust Fund is hereby created. The trust fund is not a fund of the State Treasury. Transfers to the trust fund may be...
• Section 233.
  (a) The trust fund consists of moneys transferred by the director from the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, including all income therefrom. The amount of...
• Section 234.
  The trust fund is created for the exclusive purpose of implementing and continuing the agricultural programs for which the funds were collected.(Added by Stats. 1993,...
• Section 235.
  Each agricultural program specified in subdivision (b) of Section 230 with funds contained in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund shall participate in the...
• Section 236.
  The beneficiaries of the trust are the agricultural programs with money contained in the trust fund.(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 872, Sec. 2. Effective January...
• Section 237.
  The trust fund shall continue in existence for as long as any of the agricultural programs specified in subdivision (b) of Section 230 continues to...
• Section 238.
  It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the advisory body for each of the identified agricultural programs is intended to represent...
• Section 238.5.
  The chairperson of each advisory body shall advise the director on the administration of the trust fund, including, but not limited to, the amount of...
• Section 239.
  All trust fund activities shall be subject to an audit at least once every two years by an auditing firm selected by the director in...
• Section 239.5.
  Any money that is deposited pursuant to Section 232, which the director determines is available for investment, may be invested or reinvested in any of...
• Section 240.
  The moneys in the trust fund shall be disbursed only to pay for costs arising from unanticipated occurrences associated with administering self-funded programs. These costs...
• Section 240.5.
  This article shall be liberally construed. If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018