California Food and Agricultural Code CHAPTER 4 - Powers and Duties of the District

• Section 8551.
  The district shall have perpetual succession and may do all of the following:(a) Sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings in all courts and...
• Section 8552.
  Every district formed pursuant to this part has all of the powers prescribed by Section 8551 and other sections of this part, including the power...
• Section 8553.
  (a) A district may pay limited compensation to the owner of any citrus tree infected with citrus tristeza virus which is removed by the district or...
• Section 8554.
  In order to expedite the elimination of the source of citrus tristeza virus, if it appears to the board that the cost of testing, indexing,...
• Section 8555.
  Any payment made to the owner or owners of citrus trees removed pursuant to Section 8553 or 8554 shall in no event exceed the sum...
• Section 8556.
  The commissioner of the county in which the district is located shall, upon request of the board and without fee or charge, supervise and direct,...
• Section 8557.
  The board shall, immediately after its qualification, formulate an effective plan based on the best known and accepted methods for the control and eradication of...
• Section 8558.
  After the final adoption of the plan, the board shall make or cause to be made an estimate of the cost of operating the plan...
• Section 8559.
  Within 30 days after the receipt of the estimate, the board shall adopt a preliminary budget of expenditures for such fiscal year.(Enacted by Stats. 1967,...
• Section 8560.
  Upon the adoption of the preliminary budget, the board shall fix a time and place for holding a hearing thereon.The hearing shall not be less...
• Section 8561.
  The board shall give notice of the time and place fixed for the hearing upon the preliminary budget by publication in a newspaper of general...
• Section 8562.
  The notice shall be published once a week for two successive weeks prior to the date set for the hearing.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
• Section 8563.
  The notice shall contain all of the following:(a) A summary of the proposed budget and shall refer to the original on file with the board for...
• Section 8564.
  At any time not later than the hour set for hearing objections to the proposed budget, any owner of citrus acreage in the district may...
• Section 8565.
  At the time set for hearing protests, the board shall proceed to hear and pass upon all protests so made and its decision on the...
• Section 8566.
  At the conclusion of the hearing, the board shall by resolution entered on its minutes make such changes in the proposed budget as it finds...
• Section 8567.
  There may be added to the budget for the first fiscal year of the operation of the district an amount not in excess of 20...
• Section 8568.
  For each fiscal year subsequent to the first year of operation of the district, the board shall adopt the final budget therefor in the same...

Last modified: October 22, 2018