California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - The California Sea Urchin Commission

• Section 79040.
  There is in the state government the California Sea Urchin Commission. The commission shall be composed of 11 voting members, including five sea urchin handlers,...
• Section 79041.
  (a) The secretary may require the commission to correct or cease any existing activity or function that is determined by the secretary not to be in...
• Section 79042.
  The commission or the secretary may bring an action for judicial relief from the secretary’s written notice, or from noncompliance by the commission with the...
• Section 79043.
  When the secretary is required to concur in a decision of the commission, the secretary shall give his or her response to the commission within...
• Section 79044.
  The commission shall reimburse the secretary for all expenditures incurred by the secretary in carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities pursuant to this...
• Section 79045.
  Except for nonvoting members, alternates for regular members may be elected in the same manner as members. An alternate shall, in the absence of the...
• Section 79046.
  Any vacancy on the commission occurring by the failure of any person elected to the commission as a member or alternate to continue in his...
• Section 79047.
  Any vacancy on the commission occurring by the failure of the public member to continue in his or her position due to a change in...
• Section 79048.
  (a) (1) Any handler member and his or her alternate on the commission shall be an individual handler or an employee or representative of one or more...
• Section 79049.
  (a)Any diver member and his or her alternate on the commission shall be an individual diver who has documented landings of sea urchin in the...
• Section 79050.
  The public member and his or her alternate member on the commission shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges of any other member or...
• Section 79051.
  (a) The term of office of all members and alternates on the commission, except nonvoting members, shall be two years from the beginning of the fishery...
• Section 79052.
  The commission shall be, and is hereby declared and created, a corporate body. It shall have the power to sue and be sued, to contract...
• Section 79053.
  A quorum of the commission shall be six voting members, including at least two handlers and two divers. Except as provided in Section 79143, the...
• Section 79054.
  The secretary or his or her representative shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission and any committee meetings of the commission....
• Section 79055.
  No member or alternate of the commission or member of a committee established by the commission who is a nonmember of the commission shall receive...
• Section 79056.
  (a) All funds received by the commission or an agent of the commission from the assessments levied under this chapter or otherwise received by the commission...
• Section 79057.
  The state is not liable for the acts of the commission or its contracts. Payments of all claims arising by reason of the administration of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018