California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 4 - California Seafood Council

• Section 78475.
  There is in the State of California the California Seafood Council. The council shall be composed of not less than 11 voting members and their...
• Section 78476.
  The voting members of the council shall be appointed by the secretary, giving due consideration to proper geographic distribution. The voting members shall include:(a) Four receivers...
• Section 78477.
  (a) If, pursuant to Section 78577, the receivers vote in favor of the council and the fishermen do not, the council shall be implemented with seven...
• Section 78478.
  (a) The fishermen and their alternates shall be selected from lists of nominees submitted by marketing associations and any organization deemed by the director to represent...
• Section 78479.
  The voting members of the council shall each be appointed to a three-year term, except that in the first year of the council, four members...
• Section 78480.
  If, pursuant to Section 78577, either the fishermen or the receivers, but not both, vote in favor of the council, the voting members of the...
• Section 78481.
  The term of office of a member of the council shall begin on April 1 and expire on March 31.(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1151,...
• Section 78482.
  Any vacancy in the membership of the council which occurs during the unexpired term shall be filled by the director for the unexpired term from...
• Section 78483.
  The director may remove any member of the council or alternate for cause, and, upon that removal, there is a vacancy which shall be filled...
• Section 78484.
  The director shall give notice, not later than January 31 of each year, of the vacancies that will exist upon the expiration of terms on...
• Section 78485.
  (a) The notice requesting nominations shall indicate that nominations shall be mailed to the director at his or her office in Sacramento and that the director...
• Section 78486.
  One nonvoting member of the council may be appointed by the secretary to represent each of the following entities:(a) The department.(b) The Department of Fish and Game.(c) The...
• Section 78487.
  There is no fixed term for nonvoting members of the council. The agencies listed in Section 78486 may select an alternate for their representative.(Added by...
• Section 78488.
  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 78489.
  (a) The council shall select annually from its voting number, to serve at its pleasure, a president, vice president, and treasurer. The immediate past president shall...
• Section 78490.
  The council shall hold at least two regular meetings in each year at times and places that are fixed by the council. The council may...
• Section 78491.
  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 78492.
  No member of the council, except a member of the executive committee, shall receive per diem for more than seven days per month, except the...
• Section 78493.
  The director may require any employee or agent of the council to give a fidelity bond, executed by a surety company which is authorized to...
• Section 78494.
  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 78495.
  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 78496.
  The Legislature finds and declares that fishermen, receivers, processors, wholesalers, or exporters appointed to the council pursuant to this article are intended to represent and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018