California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 4 - California Salmon Council

• Section 76700.
  (a) There is in the state government the California Salmon Council. The council shall be composed of nine voting members and their alternates, and three nonvoting...
• Section 76701.
  (a) The voting members of the council shall be appointed by the secretary, after consultation with the Director of Fish and Wildlife, giving due consideration to...
• Section 76702.
  (a) The commercial salmon vessel operators and their alternates shall be selected from lists of nominees submitted by marketing associations and any organization deemed to represent...
• Section 76703.
  The voting members of the council shall each be appointed to a three-year term, except that in the first year of the council, three members...
• Section 76704.
  The term of office of a member of the council shall begin on April 1 and expire on March 31.(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1500,...
• Section 76705.
  Any vacancy in the membership of the council that occurs during the unexpired term shall be filled by the secretary for the unexpired term from...
• Section 76706.
  The secretary may remove any member of the council or alternate for cause, and, upon that removal, there is a vacancy that shall be filled...
• Section 76707.
  The secretary shall give notice, not later than January 31 of each year, of the vacancies that will exist upon the expiration of terms on...
• Section 76708.
  (a) The notice requesting nominations shall indicate that nominations shall be mailed or sent electronically to the secretary at his or her office in Sacramento and...
• Section 76709.
  The nonvoting members of the council shall be representatives of the following agencies, as selected by the secretary:(a) The department.(b) The Department of Fish and Wildlife.(c) The California...
• Section 76710.
  There is no fixed term for nonvoting members of the council. The agencies may, but are not required to, select an alternate for their representative.(Added...
• Section 76711.
  A majority of the voting members of the council shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business, including the election of officers.(Added by...
• Section 76712.
  (a) The council shall select annually from its voting members, to serve at its pleasure, a chair and vice chair.(b) The chair and vice chair, together with...
• Section 76713.
  The council shall hold two regular meetings in each year at times and places which are fixed by the council. The times for regular meetings...
• Section 76714.
  The voting members of the council shall receive forty dollars ($40) per day per diem for each day spent in actual attendance at the meetings...
• Section 76715.
  No member of the council, except members of the executive committee, shall receive compensation for more than three days’ service per month. The chair may...
• Section 76716.
  The secretary may require any employee or agent of the council to give a fidelity bond, executed by a surety company that is authorized to...
• Section 76717.
  No member or employee of the council shall be held responsible individually to any person for liability on any contract or agreement of the council....
• Section 76718.
  An alternate member of the council shall sit as a voting member of the council if the member for whom he or she is an...
• Section 76719.
  The Legislature finds and declares that commercial salmon vessel operators, receivers, processors, wholesalers, or exporters appointed to the council pursuant to this article are intended...

Last modified: October 22, 2018