California Food and Agricultural Code ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission

• Section 66561.
  There is hereby created the California Iceberg Lettuce Commission to be thus known and designated. The commission is composed of 19 members, of which 14...
• Section 66561.3.
  The director may require the commission to correct or cease any activity or function which is determined by the director not to be in the...
• Section 66561.4.
  Either party may bring an action for judicial relief in a court of competent jurisdiction, which may issue a temporary restraining order, permanent injunction, or...
• Section 66561.5.
  The public member is appointed to the commission by the director from nominees recommended by the commission.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec.
• Section 66562.
  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 66563.
  The commission may appoint a president, a treasurer, a secretary, and any other necessary personnel to carry out this chapter. The compensation of each officer...
• Section 66564.
  Except as provided in Section 66561, each member of the commission is required to be a citizen and a resident of this state. Additionally:(a) Each handler...
• Section 66565.
  Each of the five districts is represented by the following number of handlers:(a) District 1 has one member.(b) District 2 has three members.(c) District 3 has three members.(d) District...
• Section 66566.
  The regular term of office for handler members of the commission is three years, commencing April 1 of any year in which they are appointed,...
• Section 66567.
  Members-at-large and the public representative shall serve 3-year terms.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
• Section 66568.
  Each handler member for each district shall be elected by a plurality of votes cast by handlers in the district. Each handler who has handled...
• Section 66569.
  Each member-at-large and the public member are persons nominated for appointment by the handler members of the commission and appointed by the director. Any nomination...
• Section 66571.
  Immediately after January 1, 1978, the director shall establish a list of handlers in each district. Such list of handlers may be established from lists...
• Section 66572.
  The commission or the director, in preparing a list of handlers to be used pursuant to this chapter, may omit from the list any person...
• Section 66573.
  Lists of handlers may be obtained whenever and in the manner that the director deems necessary or advisable, including for the purpose of checking, comparing,...
• Section 66574.
  Any handler, whose name does not appear on the director’s list of handlers, but who is otherwise qualified to participate in the commission activities, may...
• Section 66575.
  Upon establishment of lists of handlers, the director shall call meetings of handlers in each district for the purpose of nominating persons to be appointed...
• Section 66576.
  Upon expiration of the voting period the director shall tabulate all votes and shall announce the names of those persons nominated for appointment as handler...
• Section 66577.
  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 66578.
  The commission shall compile and maintain a list of qualified handlers.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 17.)
• Section 66579.
  Subsequent to the first election after January 1, 1978, persons to be appointed to the office of commissioner by the director shall be selected pursuant...
• Section 66580.
  If the position of a handler member becomes vacant due to failure to qualify, resignation, disqualification, death, or for any other reason, the position shall...
• Section 66581.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), nine members of the commission, of which at least eight are handler members, constitute a quorum at any meeting...
• Section 66581.5.
  The director or his or her representatives shall be notified and may attend each meeting of the commission and any committee meeting of the commission.(Amended...
• Section 66582.
  No commissioner shall receive a salary. Each commissioner shall be entitled to receive the sum of thirty-five dollars ($35) per day for each day spent...
• Section 66583.
  All moneys received by the commission or its designated agents from the assessments levied under the authority of this chapter or otherwise received by the...
• Section 66584.
  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 66585.
  The powers and duties of the commission include, but are not limited to, all of the following:(a) To elect a chairman and, from time to time,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018