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CA Food & Agri Code § 53313 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 53313.

53313.  “Turf” means grassy surface soil nursery stock consisting of grass cultivars, mixtures or blends of grass cultivars, and dichondra for use in residential and commercial landscapes.(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 622, Sec. 6.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53331 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 53331.

53331.  The Legislature hereby declares that by making any additions to or amendments of this chapter it intends to formulate a system of grades and standards and minimum requirements for nursery stock to the end that purchasers of nursery stock may have adequate knowledge concerning the name and the grade size of nursery stock with relation to established standards. If, however, any provisions of, or amendment or addition to, this chapter, either as originally enacted or as amended or added to, should be held to be unconstitutional, the unconstitutionality of such provision shall not affect any other provision of this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53332 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 53332.

53332.  The Legislature hereby declares that it would have enacted each section, subdivision, sentence, clause, or phrase of this chapter irrespective of the fact that one or more other sections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53361 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 3 - Enforcement|Section 53361.

53361.  The director and the commissioners of each county of the state, their deputies and inspectors, under the supervision and control of the director, shall enforce this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53362 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 3 - Enforcement|Section 53362.

53362.  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, all enforcing officers may enter upon any public or private premises in order to have access to nursery stock subject to this chapter and the regulations which are adopted pursuant to it.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53363 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 3 - Enforcement|Section 53363.

53363.  If the director or the commissioner shall find that any person has violated any provision of this chapter, he may institute proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction in the area in which the violation occurred, to have such person convicted of the violation, or he may file with the district attorney such evidence that may be deemed necessary.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53391 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 4 - Regulations|Section 53391.

53391.  The director may adopt regulations which may be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of this chapter and each section of it, and may issue in relation to this chapter explanatory data and charts.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53392 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 4 - Regulations|Section 53392.

53392.  The director by regulations may provide for grade sizes of the different kinds of nursery stock, and may provide that nursery stock shall be labeled with grade sizes which are established by such regulations. The director may make such other regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53421 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 5 - Warning Tags or Notices|Section 53421.

53421.  The director or the commissioner may issue and enforce a written or printed warning tag or notice to the owner or custodian of any lot of nursery stock which he finds is in violation of any provision of this chapter, which shall prohibit movement of such nursery stock until such officer has evidence that the law has been complied with. Upon compliance such order shall be removed.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53422 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 5 - Warning Tags or Notices|Section 53422.

53422.  It is unlawful for any person to move or otherwise dispose of any lot of nursery stock which is held under a warning tag or notice except with the permission of the director or the commissioner and for the purpose specified.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53423 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 5 - Warning Tags or Notices|Section 53423.

53423.  The owner or custodian of nursery stock which is held under a warning tag or notice shall, upon demand, have the right of a hearing before the director or the commissioner as to the justification of any such order, and may appeal to the director from any order of the commissioner which is made pursuant to this article.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53424 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 5 - Warning Tags or Notices|Section 53424.

53424.  This article shall not be construed as limiting the right of the enforcement officer to proceed as authorized by other provisions of this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53425 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 5 - Warning Tags or Notices|Section 53425.

53425.  Any decision of the director pursuant to this article is subject to review by any court of competent jurisdiction.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53451 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 6 - Standards|Section 53451.

53451.  Nursery stock which is sold shall comply with all of the following requirements:(a) It shall be living stock and shall not be dead, or in a dying condition. (b) It shall not be seriously broken, frozen, or damaged.(c) It shall not be abnormally potbound.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53452 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 6 - Standards|Section 53452.

53452.  Deciduous fruit and nut trees which are sold shall be free from any of the following defects:(a) Twisted, crossed, frosted, broken, or other defective roots.(b) Broken grafts.(c) Other deformations and defects which would interfere with the normal and proper development of such trees after planting.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53481 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 7 - Labeling|Section 53481.

53481.  When nursery stock is sold, it shall be labeled plainly and legibly as to the grade size, if so required by regulations, and as to the correct name as follows:(a) The correct name for ornamentals, except roses, fruit trees, and annual or herbaceous perennial ornamental plants, shall be the botanical name.(b) The correct name for fruit trees shall be the recognized common name and cultivar.(c) The correct name for turf shall be the kind and cultivar.(d) The correct name for roses, annual or herbaceous perennial ornamental plants, dormant bulbs, tubers, roots, corms, rhizomes, pips, and other kinds of nursery stock shall be the cultivar name, except that the recognized common name shall be required whenever no cultivar name has been given or can be determined.(Repealed (by Sec. 7) and added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 622, Sec. 8.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53482 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 7 - Labeling|Section 53482.

53482.  In order to identify nursery stock properly, whenever it is shipped, delivered, or transported to any purchaser, each plant shall be individually labeled as to the correct name. The director may create exceptions to this section by regulation.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 622, Sec. 10.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53483 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 7 - Labeling|Section 53483.

53483.  Nursery stock on display for sale at retail may be labeled by a sign on any block of stock of the same kind and species. Turf shall be labeled by a sign showing the required correct name of the stock on display.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 622, Sec. 12.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53484 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 7 - Labeling|Section 53484.

53484.  This article shall become operative January 1, 1982.(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1202. Note: This section prescribes a delayed operative date for Article 7, commencing with Section 53481.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53511 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 8 - Violations|Section 53511.

53511.  It is unlawful for any person to sell, ship, deliver, or transport to any purchaser any nursery stock which is within any of the following:(a) Is not labeled in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or the regulations of the director.(b) Has false or misleading labeling, or pertaining to which there has been a false or misleading advertisement.(c) Is represented to be certified or registered nursery stock unless it has been produced and labeled in accordance with the procedures and in compliance with the rules and regulations of an official agency.This section does not apply to any common carrier in respect to any nursery stock which is transported or delivered for transportation in the ordinary course of its business as a carrier.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53512 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 8 - Violations|Section 53512.

53512.  It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following:(a) Detach, alter, deface, or destroy any label, warning tag, or notice which is provided for in this chapter or in the regulations which are adopted pursuant to it, or alter or substitute nursery stock, in a manner that may defeat the purpose of this chapter.(b) Disseminate any false or misleading advertisement concerning nursery stock in any manner or by any means.(c) Hinder or obstruct in any way any authorized person in the performance of his duties under this chapter.(d) Fail to comply with a warning tag or notice.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53541 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 9 - Penalties|Section 53541.

53541.  The violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, Sec. 122. Effective September 27, 1983. Operative January 1, 1984, by Sec. 427 of Ch. 1092.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53561 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 10 - Abatement|Section 53561.

53561.  Any lot of nursery stock which does not comply with the provisions of this chapter is a public nuisance and shall be subject to seizure on complaint of the director or the commissioner to a court of competent jurisdiction in the area in which the nursery stock is located.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53562 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 10 - Abatement|Section 53562.

53562.  The district attorney of the county in which any such nuisance is found, at the request of the director or the commissioner, shall maintain, in the name of the people of the State of California, a civil action to abate and prevent such nuisance. Upon judgment and by order of the court, such nuisance shall be condemned and destroyed in the manner directed by the court, or relabeled, or reconditioned, or released upon such conditions as the court in its discretion may impose to insure the nuisance will be abated.(Amended by Stats. 1967, Ch. 26.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53563 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 10 - Abatement|Section 53563.

53563.  If the owner fails to comply with the order of the court within the time specified in the order, the court may order that such nursery stock be forthwith destroyed or the nuisance otherwise abated as set forth in such order.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 53564 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 18 - FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS|CHAPTER 5 - Nursery Stock Grades and Standards|ARTICLE 10 - Abatement|Section 53564.

53564.  A proceeding pursuant to this article where the value of the property is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or less is a limited civil case.(Amended by Stats. 1998, Ch. 931, Sec. 172. Effective September 28, 1998.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54001 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 54001.

54001.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54002 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 54002.

54002.  “Association” means any corporation which is organized pursuant to this chapter. An association shall be deemed incorporated pursuant to this chapter, or organized pursuant to this chapter and shall be deemed a producer of a product within the meaning of this chapter, if it is functioning under, or is subject to, the provisions of this chapter, irrespective of whether it was originally incorporated pursuant to such provisions or was incorporated under other provisions.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54003 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 54003.

54003.  “Member” includes members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations which are organized with shares of stock.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54004 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 1 - Definitions|Section 54004.

54004.  “Product” includes any horticultural, viticultural, aquacultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, or farm product.(Amended by Stats. 1995, Ch. 810, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 1996.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54031 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54031.

54031.  The purpose of this chapter is to do all of the following:(a) Promote, foster, and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of agricultural products through cooperation.(b) Eliminate speculation and waste.(c) Make the distribution of agricultural products between producer and consumer as direct as can be efficiently done.(d) Stabilize the marketing of agricultural products.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54032 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54032.

54032.  The following are all here recognized:(a) Agriculture is characterized by individual production in contrast to the group or factory system that characterizes other forms of individual production. (b) The ordinary form of corporate organization permits industrial groups to combine for the purpose of group production and the ensuing group marketing, and the public has an interest in permitting farmers to bring their industry to the high degree of efficiency and merchandising skill evidenced in the manufacturing industries.(c) The public interest urgently needs to prevent the migration from the farm to the city in order to keep up farm production and to preserve the agricultural supply of the nation.(d) The public interest demands that the farmer be encouraged to attain a superior and more direct system of marketing in the substitution of merchandising for the blind, unscientific, and speculative selling of crops.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54033 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54033.

54033.  Associations which are organized pursuant to this chapter are “nonprofit,” since they are not organized to make profit for themselves, as such, or for their members, as such, but only for their members as producers.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54034 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54034.

54034.  Any provisions of law which are in conflict with this chapter do not apply to any association which is provided for in this chapter.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54035 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54035.

54035.  Any exemption under any existing law which applies to any agricultural product in the possession, or under the control, of the individual producer, shall apply similarly and completely to such product which is delivered by its farmer members that are in the possession, or under the control, of the association.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54036 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54036.

54036.  A person, firm, corporation, or association, that is hereafter organized or doing business in this state, may not use the word “cooperative” as part of its corporate name or other business name or title for producers’ cooperative marketing activities, unless it has complied with this chapter or is otherwise authorized by Chapter 22 (commencing with Section 26220) of Division 10 of the Business and Professions Code.(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 27, Sec. 111. (SB 94) Effective June 27, 2017.)
CA Food & Agri Code § 54037 (2021)
2021 California Code|Food and Agricultural Code - FAC|DIVISION 20 - PROCESSORS, STORERS, DEALERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS|CHAPTER 1 - Nonprofit Cooperative Associations|ARTICLE 2 - General Provisions|Section 54037.

54037.  Any corporation or association which is organized pursuant to previously existing statutes for the purpose of cooperatively marketing products as defined in this chapter or under Title 23 (commencing with Section 653aa), Part 4, Division 1 of the Civil Code shall be deemed to be organized and existing pursuant to, and by virtue of, this chapter, and all of the provisions of this chapter, and any of the restrictions and benefits of such provisions, shall apply to such corporation.(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)