California Food and Agricultural Code CHAPTER 3 - Organization and Administration

• Section 3951.
  Fifty or more persons, who are residents of a district, may form an association to be known as and designated as the ____ District Agricultural...
• Section 3952.
  Copies of the articles of association shall be filed with the Governor, the Secretary of State, and the department.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 3953.
  Each association is a state institution.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 3954.
  Each association by its name has perpetual succession. It may have a seal. An association may sue and be sued, and may do any and...
• Section 3955.
  Claims against an association shall be presented to the Department of General Services in accordance with Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4...
• Section 3956.
  The officers of the association shall consist of a board of directors of nine members. The directors shall be citizens and residents of the district.(Enacted...
• Section 3957.
  If two or more counties constitute a district, each county shall be represented on the board by at least two persons who are citizens and...
• Section 3958.
  If, by reason of the formation of a new district, a director in one district becomes a resident of another district, his term of office...
• Section 3959.
  The directors shall be appointed by the Governor.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 3960.
  The term of office of each director, except that of a member of the first board, is four years from the beginning of the term...
• Section 3961.
  The term of office of each member of the first board shall be so fixed by the Governor that the terms of the directors of...
• Section 3962.
  The directors are state officers.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 3963.
  The directors shall meet at a place within the district and organize by the election of one of their number as president. The term of...
• Section 3964.
  The directors shall also select a secretary, a manager, and a treasurer from among persons who are not members of the board. One person may...
• Section 3964.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a board may form any advisory committee by resolution or any similar formal action.(b) Meetings of an advisory committee shall be open...
• Section 3965.
  The board may, with the approval of the department:(a) Fix the term of office, the amount of bond and salary, and prescribe the duties of the...
• Section 3965.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 3965 or 4051, the board, without prior approval from the department, may arrange for and conduct, or cause to be conducted, or by...
• Section 3966.
  The board shall annually make to the department such report as such department may direct.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 3967.
  Any director who misses three consecutive regular meetings of the board without the permission of the board is deemed to have resigned as a director.(Added...
• Section 3968.
  Records of the board which are entries in events which are scheduled for future judging and for overnight entries in races on which there is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018