California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board

• Section 52871.
  There is in the state government the San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board. The board shall be composed of seven cotton growers, three cotton industry members...
• Section 52872.
  The secretary shall establish a list of growers and other persons and organizations subject to this chapter. Each person or organization on the list shall...
• Section 52873.
  The secretary shall supervise and conduct any election held pursuant to Section 52871 and this section. Elections for grower members and elections for industry members...
• Section 52874.
  Each member of the board, except the ex officio members, shall have an alternate member, who shall be a candidate for election in the same...
• Section 52875.
  An alternate member, in the absence of the member for whom he or she is alternate, shall sit in place of the member on the...
• Section 52876.
  Grower members and their alternates on the board shall have a financial interest in producing, or causing to be produced, cotton for market.Cotton industry members...
• Section 52878.
  The term of office for each member, alternate, and ex officio member of the board is four years.(Amended by Stats. 1981, Ch. 433, Sec. 5....
• Section 52879.
  Upon implementation of Article 9.5 (commencing with Section 52951), the board shall have the power to sue and be sued, and to enter into contracts....
• Section 52880.
  The board may appoint its own officers, including a chairman, one or more vice chairmen, and such other officers as it deems necessary. The officers...
• Section 52881.
  The board may appoint committees composed of both members and nonmembers of the board to advise the board in carrying out this chapter. The board...
• Section 52882.
  The board shall meet at least once a year, or at the call of the chairperson or the secretary, or at the request of any...
• Section 52883.
  A quorum of the board shall be any six voting members or their alternates. The vote of a majority of members present at a meeting...
• Section 52884.
  The secretary or the secretary’s representatives shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the board.(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 136, Sec. 10. Effective...
• Section 52885.
  No board member, alternate, member of a committee who is a nonmember of the board, or ex officio member shall receive a salary, but may,...
• Section 52886.
  Upon board action, all moneys received by any person from the assessments levied under the authority of Article 9.5 (commencing with Section 52951) of this...
• Section 52887.
  The state shall not be liable for the acts of the board or its contracts. Payment of all claims arising by reason of the administration...
• Section 52889.
  The secretary may require the board to correct or cease any activity or function that is determined by the secretary not to be in the...
• Section 52890.
  Either the secretary or the board may bring an action for judicial relief in a court of competent jurisdiction, which may thereafter issue a temporary...

Last modified: October 22, 2018