California Food and Agricultural Code CHAPTER 10 - Cotton Pests Abatement Districts

• Section 6051.
  Cotton pests abatement districts may be organized and established by the board of supervisors of the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino,...
• Section 6052.
  In order to propose the organization of a cotton pests abatement district, a petition shall be presented to the board of supervisors of the county...
• Section 6053.
  Upon receipt of the petition, the board of supervisors shall direct the agricultural commissioner to create a register of all cottongrowers growing cotton within the...
• Section 6054.
  The commissioner shall file the cottongrowers register within 60 days of receipt of the order from the board of supervisors or by March 1st, whichever...
• Section 6055.
  The proponents of the formation of the district may, within 30 days of the receipt by the board of supervisors of the register of cottongrowers...
• Section 6056.
  Upon receipt of the petition, the board of supervisors shall immediately refer the petition to the agricultural commissioner who shall examine it by reference to...
• Section 6057.
  At its meeting at which the certificate is received from the agricultural commissioner, or at its next meeting, regular or special, thereafter, the board of...
• Section 6058.
  At the hearing, the board of supervisors shall make such changes in the boundaries of the proposed district as they determine to be advisable, and...
• Section 6059.
  The board of supervisors shall, at the next regular or special meeting following the hearing upon the question of the organization of the proposed district,...
• Section 6060.
  The board of supervisors shall, at the meeting at which the order declaring the district to be organized is made, appoint a board of five...
• Section 6061.
  Each director so appointed shall, in the manner provided by law, give official bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties in the...
• Section 6062.
  Any cotton pests abatement district organized pursuant to this chapter may do all of the following:(a) Have perpetual succession.(b) Sue and be sued for all actions and...
• Section 6063.
  The general control and management of each district shall be vested in a board of directors of five members. Directors shall be reimbursed for actual...
• Section 6064.
  The term of office of the directors shall be four years, except for those first appointed upon the organization of the district. The first appointees...
• Section 6065.
  In the event of a vacancy in the board of directors either by resignation, death, or otherwise, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by...
• Section 6066.
  The board of directors of each district shall have the power to appoint and to fix the compensation of a secretary of the district who...
• Section 6067.
  Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, all acts of the board of directors shall be by resolution, and the adoption of a resolution shall...
• Section 6068.
  The powers conferred upon any cotton pests abatement district and its board of directors by the provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to...
• Section 6069.
  The agricultural commissioner of the county in which any district is situated, may, without fee or charge, supervise and direct, in accordance with the best...
• Section 6070.
  The board of supervisors in every county where a district has been organized and exists under the provisions of this chapter shall direct the agricultural...
• Section 6071.
  The board of directors of each district shall, on or before the first Monday in February of each year, prepare and file with the board...
• Section 6072.
  The board of supervisors of the county may annually establish a fee for a permit to grow cotton within each cotton pests abatement district situated...
• Section 6073.
  The permit fee shall be entered in the minutes of the board of supervisors who shall advise the board of directors of the district of...
• Section 6074.
  The treasury of the county shall be the repository of all the moneys of the district. The county treasurer shall receive and receipt for all...
• Section 6075.
  The board of directors, when prohibiting the planting, growing, or maintenance of cotton plants within the boundaries of the district, shall notify persons affected by...
• Section 6076.
  In each cotton pests abatement district, a biennial election shall be held in March of each odd-numbered year by the county elections official of the...
• Section 6077.
  The county elections official on or after the 29th day before the election shall mail a ballot, an identification envelope, and a stamped and addressed...
• Section 6078.
  The persons declared elected shall take the oath of office and file their official bonds with the county elections official on or before the first...
• Section 6079.
  Any owner of land devoted to the growing of cotton in the county where the district is situated may file a petition for inclusion in...
• Section 6080.
  The board of directors of each cotton pests abatement district shall hold a regular meeting at least once each month at the time and place...
• Section 6081.
  Whenever the board of supervisors, by resolution, desires to dissolve the district, or whenever a petition, signed by not less than 25 percent of the...
• Section 6082.
  At the expiration of 90 days after the election, the board of directors shall deliver on the basis of the ratio of the acreage devoted...
• Section 6083.
  All claims and accounts against the district which have not been settled by the board of directors within 90 days after the election authorizing the...
• Section 6084.
  In the event that there are insufficient funds to discharge all claims and accounts brought pursuant to Section 6083, the board of supervisors shall, at...
• Section 6085.
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Cotton Pests Abatement District Act.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 142, Sec. 24.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018