California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - The California Table Grape Commission

• Section 65550.
  There is hereby created the California Table Grape Commission to be thus known and designated. The commission shall be composed of 21 fresh grape producers...
• Section 65551.
  The California Table Grape Commission shall be and is hereby declared and created a corporate body. It shall have the power to sue and be...
• Section 65552.
  The commission may appoint a manager, a treasurer and a secretary. The compensation of each officer shall be fixed by the commission and they shall...
• Section 65553.
  The members of the commission shall be natural persons, each of whom shall be a citizen and resident of this state over the age of...
• Section 65554.
  Each of the seven districts shall be represented by three members.(Added by Stats. 1967, Ch. 1467.)
• Section 65555.
  The regular term of office of the members of the commission shall be three years from the date of appointment and until their successors are...
• Section 65556.
  Each member for each district shall be elected by a plurality of votes cast by producers in the district. Each producer who has grown fresh...
• Section 65558.
  A nonprofit cooperative marketing association may vote by proxy for any member, if so authorized in writing. Such proxy shall be revocable at will.(Added by...
• Section 65559.
  Immediately after the effective date of this chapter, the director shall establish a list of producers in each district. Such list of producers may be...
• Section 65559.5.
  The commission or the director in preparing a list of producers to be used under this chapter, may omit from such list any person who...
• Section 65560.
  In addition, the director may obtain lists of producers whenever and in such manner as he may deem necessary or advisable, for the purpose of...
• Section 65561.
  Any producer producing fresh grapes, whose name does not appear upon the director’s list of producers affected, may have his name established thereon by filing...
• Section 65562.
  Upon establishment of such lists of producers, the Director of Agriculture shall call meetings of producers in each district, for the purpose of nominating persons...
• Section 65563.
  Upon expiration of the voting period the director shall tabulate all votes and shall announce the names of those persons nominated for appointment as members...
• Section 65564.
  Nonreceipt of notice of a meeting for the nomination of commissioners or of ballots shall not invalidate any such meeting, nomination or election.(Added by Stats....
• Section 65565.
  Subsequent to the first election after the effective date of this chapter, the commission shall compile and maintain a list of qualified producers and shall,...
• Section 65566.
  Subsequent to the first election after the effective date of this chapter, persons to be appointed to the office of commissioner by the Director of...
• Section 65567.
  In the event the office of a commissioner becomes vacant due to failure to qualify, resignation, disqualification, death or for any other reason, such position...
• Section 65568.
  A majority of the members of the commission at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business and the carrying out...
• Section 65569.
  No commissioner shall receive a salary. Each commissioner shall receive the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25) per day for each day spent in actual attendance...
• Section 65570.
  All moneys received by any person from the assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the commission shall be paid...
• Section 65571.
  The State of California shall not be liable for the acts of the commission or its contracts. Payment of all claims arising by reason of...
• Section 65572.
  The powers and duties of the commission shall include the following:(a) To elect a chairman, and from time to time such other officers as it may...
• Section 65573.
  The provisions of this chapter except Sections 65550, 65551, 65553, 65554, 65555, 65556, 65558, to 65565, inclusive, shall not become operative until the commission finds,...
• Section 65574.
  The commission shall appoint a shipper advisory committee of five members appointed from shippers at large to advise the commission on the exercise of its...
• Section 65575.
  Members of the shipper advisory committee shall not receive a salary. Each member of the shipper advisory committee shall receive the sum of twenty-five dollars...
• Section 65575.1.
  Not later than April 1 of 1979, and each third year thereafter, the commission shall submit to the director the names of three or more...
• Section 65575.2.
  The public member of the commission shall represent the interests of the general public in all matters coming before the commission and shall have the...
• Section 65576.
  It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that producers or employees of producers appointed to the commission pursuant to this article are...

Last modified: October 22, 2018