California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 10 - Assessments and Funds

• Section 58921.
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 58926, each marketing order which is issued pursuant to this chapter shall provide for the levying and collection of...
• Section 58922.
  Each marketing order shall indicate the maximum rate of any assessment which may be collected and the proportion, if any, of each assessment which is...
• Section 58923.
  The advisory board which is appointed by the director to assist him in administering each marketing order shall recommend to the director, from time to...
• Section 58924.
  The amount of the assessment for necessary expenses shall not, however, exceed the following:(a) In the case of producers, 21/2 percent of the gross dollar volume...
• Section 58925.
  Any assessment rate which is established for assessments to defray the expenses of advertising and sales promotion plans shall be in an amount which does...
• Section 58926.
  In lieu of the assessments to defray the costs of formulation, issuance, administration, and enforcement and advertising or sales promotion provided for in Section 58921,...
• Section 58927.
  If the director approves and fixes a single assessment, the advisory board shall recommend and the director may approve the proportions of such assessment which...
• Section 58928.
  If any advisory board of any marketing order has reason to believe that the administration of a marketing order will be facilitated or the attainment...
• Section 58929.
  Any assessment which is levied as provided in this article, in such specified amount as may be determined by the director pursuant to this chapter,...
• Section 58930.
  If any producer or handler that is duly assessed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter fails to pay to the director the amount so...
• Section 58931.
  The director may require the persons that are assessed to deposit with him in advance the following amounts:(a) An amount for necessary expenses.(b) An amount which shall...
• Section 58932.
  The amount of any deposit which is required by the director pursuant to Section 58931 shall be based upon the estimated number of units to...
• Section 58933.
  At any time after the funds which are credited to the administrative account, or the advertising or sales promotion account, of the marketing order are...
• Section 58934.
  In lieu of requiring advance deposits, or in order generally to provide funds for defraying administrative or advertising and sales promotion expenses until such time...
• Section 58934.5.
  In order to provide funds for defraying expenditures authorized by the marketing order, the director or any advisory board may also receive and disburse contributions...
• Section 58935.
  For the convenience of making collections of any producer assessments which are established pursuant to this article, the director may collect such assessments from the...
• Section 58936.
  The director may adopt rules and regulations with respect to the assessment and collection of funds pursuant to this article.(Amended by Stats. 1984, Ch. 425,...
• Section 58937.
  (a) Any money that is collected by the director pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in a bank or other depository that is approved by...
• Section 58938.
  The director may, at the close of each fiscal period which is used by the advisory board for budgetary purposes, refund any money which remains...
• Section 58938.5.
  (a) Assessments paid on milk pursuant to the requirements of a market milk marketing order or a manufacturing milk marketing order established under this chapter shall...
• Section 58939.
  Any money which is deposited pursuant to this article, which the director determines is available for investment, may be invested or reinvested by the Treasurer...
• Section 58940.
  Any check or warrant which is drawn against the funds of any marketing order which remains unclaimed or uncashed for a period of six months...
• Section 58941.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 241), Chapter 2, Division 1 of this code, each marketing order or agreement shall be charged...

Last modified: October 22, 2018