California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - The California Apiary Research Commission

• Section 79631.
  (a) There is in the state government the California Apiary Research Commission. The commission shall be composed of six assessment-paying producers and one public member. Producers...
• Section 79632.
  (a) The secretary may require the commission to correct or cease any existing activity or function that is determined by the secretary to be in violation...
• Section 79633.
  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 79634.
  The commission shall reimburse the secretary for all expenditures incurred by the secretary in carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities under this chapter....
• Section 79635.
  Each producer member of the commission shall have an alternate member appointed or elected in the same manner as the member. An alternate member, in...
• Section 79635.5.
  The public member shall have an alternate member appointed in the same manner as the public member. The alternate public member, in the absence of...
• Section 79636.
  Any vacancy on the commission, including, but not limited to, the failure of any person elected to the commission as a member or alternate member...
• Section 79637.
  A producer member, or his or her alternate, shall be an assessment-paying beekeeper who has a financial interest in producing, or causing to be produced,...
• Section 79638.
  The public member, or his or her alternate, shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges of any other member on the commission. The public...
• Section 79639.
  The term of office of all members and alternates, except any ex officio member, shall be three years from the date of their election, but...
• Section 79640.
  The commission may sue and be sued and enter into contracts. Copies of its proceedings, records, and acts, when authenticated, shall be admissible in evidence...
• Section 79641.
  A quorum of the commission is a majority of the producer members. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the vote of a majority of...
• Section 79642.
  The secretary or his or her representatives shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission and any committee meeting of the commission....
• Section 79643.
  No member of the commission or of any committee established by the commission, which may include nonmembers of the commission, shall receive a salary. Except...
• Section 79644.
  If the secretary is required to concur in a decision of the commission, he or she shall indicate his or her response to the commission...
• Section 79645.
  All moneys received by any person from assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the commission shall be deposited in...
• Section 79646.
  The state shall not be liable for the acts of the commission or its contracts. Payment of all claims arising by reason of the administration...

Last modified: October 22, 2018