California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 7 - Marketing Program and Grading Committees

• Section 59721.
  The affairs of each proration zone shall be managed by a marketing program committee which is appointed in accordance with this chapter. The director shall...
• Section 59722.
  For terms subsequent to the term of the initial committee, members and their respective alternates shall be selected and appointed in accordance with the following...
• Section 59723.
  Eligible lists shall be established by the director either by means of a meeting of producers in each district, or by means of mail ballot,...
• Section 59724.
  If a corporation or a partnership is a producer, it may designate a representative who may be a nominee.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 59725.
  Each respective alternate shall be appointed from the same eligible list from which the member is appointed. Each district in the proration zone is entitled...
• Section 59726.
  The marketing program committee may at any time invite any handler or other person to its meetings to serve in an advisory capacity and may...
• Section 59727.
  The director may, if requested by the producer members of the marketing program committee, appoint on the committee, in addition to the producer members, not...
• Section 59728.
  If grade, quality, or size regulations are authorized under any marketing program for any commodity which is used for canning, freezing, fermenting, or distilling, and...
• Section 59729.
  The members and alternate members of any marketing program committee or grading committee which are duly appointed by the director, including employees of the marketing...
• Section 59730.
  Marketing program committee members are entitled to compensation at a rate not exceeding ten dollars ($10) each for each day while engaged on official business....
• Section 59731.
  An alternate member of a marketing program committee shall sit as a regular member of the committee if the member for whom he is an...
• Section 59732.
  Any vacancy on the marketing program committee which is occasioned by the expiration of term of office shall be filled from eligible lists of producers...
• Section 59733.
  The marketing program committee shall appoint an agent, subject to the approval of the director, who shall administer the marketing program under the direction of...
• Section 59734.
  The agent shall appoint such deputy agents and other assistants as may be necessary to direct the marketing program. Such appointments are subject to the...
• Section 59735.
  The marketing program committee, with the approval of the director, may do all of the following:(a) Appoint subcommittees in any producing areas within the proration zone...
• Section 59736.
  The exercise of the powers which are granted to a marketing program committee in its administration of a marketing program which is made effective pursuant...
• Section 59737.
  Upon recommendation of the marketing program committee which is concerned, the director may, consistent with this chapter, establish such administrative regulations as may be necessary...
• Section 59738.
  It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers, or handlers, and processors appointed to any committees pursuant to this article are...

Last modified: October 22, 2018