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2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 1 - Declarations and Purposes › Section 66506.

66506. Notwithstanding any other laws to the contrary, in the event a commodity or marketing agreement or marketing order under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Agriculture, or other appropriate federal agency, is created by referendum or under the applicable laws and procedures relating thereto, in this state or in any geographical area within this state, which agreement or order contains provisions substantially similar to the provisions of this chapter, this chapter shall be inapplicable to any producer, shipper, or other person covered by, and, to the extent of such coverage, during the existence of, such federal agreement or order.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 1 - Declarations and Purposes › Section 66507.

66507. A commission form of administration created by this chapter is designed to deal with the broad fields of advertising, promotion, and marketing research.
(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66521.

66521. As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meaning set forth hereafter unless otherwise apparent from the context.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66522.

66522. “Advertising and sales promotion” means, in addition to the ordinarily accepted meaning thereof, trade promotion and activities for the prevention, modification, or removal of trade barriers which restrict the free flow of iceberg lettuce to market and may include the presentation of facts to, and negotiations with, state, federal, or foreign governmental agencies on matters which affect the marketing of such lettuce.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66523.

66523. “Books and records” means any book, record, account, contract, document, memorandum, paper, correspondence, or other written datum reflecting operations under this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66524. “Cartwright Act” means the act set forth in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16700), Part 2, Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66525. “Cause to be produced” means the proprietary functions of initiating and supervising iceberg lettuce production.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66526.

66526. “Commission” means the California Iceberg Lettuce Commission.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66527. “Commissioner” means any member of the commission.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66528. “Districts” consist of:
District 1.(Blythe area) Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
District 2.(Imperial Valley area) Imperial County.
District 3.(Oxnard-Santa Maria area) Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties.
District 4.(Salinas-Watsonville area) Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Alameda, and Del Norte Counties.
District 5.(San Joaquin-Sacramento Valley area) Sacramento, Kern, Fresno, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, King, Merced, Madera, Contra Costa, Yolo, Solano, Napa, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Glenn, Butte Counties, and all other counties of California not included in Districts 1, 2, 3, and 4.
The number of districts and the boundaries of any district may be changed by a two-thirds vote of the commission when necessary to maintain similar total production among the districts and to ensure proper representation of producers. District boundaries are not required to coincide with county boundaries.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 1.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66529.

66529. “Director” means the Director of Food and Agriculture.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66530. “Fiscal year,” means the period beginning April 1 of any year and extending through March 31 of the following year.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66531.

66531. “Grower” means any person engaged within this state in the business of producing or causing to be produced iceberg lettuce.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66532.

66532. “Grower-handler” means any person who is engaged within the state in the business of producing or causing to be produced, through contractual agreements or other legal relationships and having an ownership therein, iceberg lettuce, and who in addition thereto prepares for market and markets, either through its own sales force or by agents or contract sellers, 250,000 pounds or more of such lettuce during a marketing season and who is not a secondary handler, as defined in Section 66542.5. Any producer who for his own account engages the services of another person to prepare for market and markets 250,000 pounds or more of his own production during a marketing season, shall be deemed the handler thereof. In determining whether the grower-handler has marketed 250,000 pounds or more of lettuce during a marketing season, there shall be excluded from such computations all shipments of 200 pounds or less of iceberg lettuce sold or shipped by a handler directly to the consumer.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66533.

66533. “Grower-shipper” has the same meaning as grower-handler.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66534.

66534. “Handle” means to perform any of the functions of a handler.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66535.

66535. “Handler,” unless otherwise specified, has the same meaning as grower-handler as defined in Section 66532 and secondary handler as defined in Section 66542.5. “Handler” also means any person who engages in the marketing of iceberg lettuce on behalf of a grower, whether as an owner, agent, employee, broker, or commission merchant or otherwise.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66536.

66536. “Iceberg lettuce” for purposes of this chapter means varieties of lettuce produced in California of the types which are distinguished as “crisphead” in that certain publication entitled “Lettuce Production in the United States, Agricultural Handbook No. 221,” August 1974 revision, issued by the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The term does not include the types of lettuce otherwise distinguished in such publication by the terms “butterhead,” “cos or romaine” and “looseleaf.”
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66537.

66537. “Market” or ”marketing” means to sell, ship, or otherwise distribute iceberg lettuce in the commercial channels of trade in a manner consistent with this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 3.)
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66538. “Marketing season” has the same meaning as fiscal year.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 4.)
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66539. “Prepare for market” means to perform all functions of harvesting and preparing iceberg lettuce for market or marketing.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66540.

66540. “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or other business unit, and shall include, for purposes of this chapter, any state agency which engages in any of the commercial activities regulated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66541.

66541. “Producer” has the same meaning as grower.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66542.

66542. “Public representative” means a member of the commission appointed to represent the public generally pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 66564.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66542.5.

66542.5. “Secondary handler” means any person who purchases from a grower or grower-handler iceberg lettuce for the purpose of coring, shredding, or processing such iceberg lettuce for market and who markets such processed iceberg lettuce during a marketing season.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66543.

66543. “Standard box” means standard containers for iceberg lettuce as such containers are defined in the California Administrative Code.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions and General Provisions › Section 66544.

66544. “Standard carton” has the same meaning as standard box.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66545. “Standard container” has the same meaning as standard box.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66546. “Unfair Practices Act” means the act set forth in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 17000), Part 2, Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66561.

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 are handlers as defined in Section 66532, four are members-at-large of which two may be grower-handlers from Arizona who otherwise qualify pursuant to Section 66532, and one is a person who is neither a producer nor a handler and who is appointed specifically to represent the public generally.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 2.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66561.3.

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 public interest or is in violation of this chapter.
If the commission refuses or fails to cease such activities or functions or to make such corrections as required by the director, the director may, upon written notice, suspend all or a portion of the activities of the commission until such time that the cessation or correction of activities or functions as required by the director have been accomplished.
Any written notice, to cease any such activity which is the subject of a contract of the commission entered into by the commission prior to such notice, shall not be effective until after the period of notice for termination provided in such contract or 120 days whichever is shorter.
Upon service of the written notice, the director shall notify the commission in writing, of the specific acts which he determines are not in the public interest or are in violation of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66561.4.

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 other applicable relief.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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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. 7.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66562.

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 and be contracted with, and to have and possess all of the powers of a corporation. It shall adopt a corporate seal. Copies of its proceedings, records, and acts, when certified by the secretary, shall be admissible in evidence in all courts of the state, and shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of all statements therein.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 3.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66563.

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 shall be fixed by the commission. No officer shall be a member of the commission.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 8.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66564.

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 member is required to be currently engaged in the handling of iceberg lettuce. Not more than two handler members shall be employed by, or have a proprietary interest in, the same corporation, firm, partnership, association, or business organization. However, not more than one handler member in any one district shall be so employed or have such a proprietary interest.
(b) Each member-at-large is required to be a person, whether or not engaged in the production or marketing of iceberg lettuce, whose qualifications are appropriate to the needs of the commission. The person may be a handler who is not appointed as a handler member but who nevertheless is qualified under subdivision (a) to serve as a handler member.
(c) The person appointed to represent the public generally is required to be any person who is neither a producer nor a handler, whose qualifications are appropriate to the needs of the commission.
(d) The qualifications of members of the commission, as set forth in this section, shall continue during their term of office.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 4.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66565.

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 4 has five members.
(e) District 5 has two members.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 10.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66566.

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, and, except with respect to the first of the members, each serves as follows:
(a) District 1:  one serves for three years.
(b) District 2:  one serves for one year, one serves for two years, and one serves for three years.
(c) District 3:  two serve for two years and one serves for three years.
(d) District 4:  one serves for one year, two serve for two years, and two serve for three years.
(e) District 5:  one serves for two years and one serves for three years.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 5.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66567.

66567. Members-at-large and the public representative shall serve 3-year terms.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66568.

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 iceberg lettuce in the district in which he is qualified to vote during the year preceding any election shall be entitled to one vote for each membership position apportioned to such district and for which the election is being held. In the event of a tie vote, there shall be another election to resolve the tie vote. The district in which a handler is qualified to vote shall be the district of his headquarters unless, upon application, he is certified to vote in a different district in which he handled iceberg lettuce during the preceding year.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66569.

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 requires a plurality of votes cast by the handler members. When any positions later become vacant for any reason or cause, proceedings to fill the vacancy are the same as for the initial appointments and are undertaken at the next meeting of the commission after the position is vacated.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 12.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66571.

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 of such persons whose names and addresses appear on file in the department.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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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 who functions as a handler, but who handles less than 250,000 pounds of iceberg lettuce during a marketing season. Any person so omitted from the list is not subject to this chapter, including the payment of any assessments, and is not qualified as a handler under this chapter. Any person omitted from a list pursuant to this section may be included on any subsequent list if found qualified as a handler at the time of preparing the list.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 183, Sec. 126. Effective January 1, 2005.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66573.

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, or correcting the lists. The handler list shall, subject to any proper corrections, be final and conclusive in making determinations relative to the number and qualifications of handlers entitled to vote for commissioners.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 14.)
2023 California Code › Food and Agricultural Code - FAC › DIVISION 22 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCY LAWS › PART 2 - MARKETING ADVISORY AND PROMOTIONAL COUNCILS AND COMMISSIONS › CHAPTER 4 - California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › ARTICLE 3 - The California Iceberg Lettuce Commission › Section 66574.

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 have his or her name established thereon by filing with the director a signed statement advising that he or she handled iceberg lettuce in the immediately preceding marketing season and giving the quantity handled in each district and the quantity introduced into trade.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 15.)
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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 to the office of commissioner. At each district meeting for the nomination of members, the director, or an authorized representative thereof, shall preside and receive nominations and, at the conclusion of each meeting, shall announce the names of persons nominated at the meeting and the time, the manner, and instructions for voting by mail. Thereafter, within 10 days after the final district meeting, the director shall mail to all handlers ballots for the election of members in the respective districts, with instructions for voting by mail. All ballots are required to be returned to the director and mailed for delivery within 10 days after issuance by the director.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 16.)
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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 members of the commission from each district and shall appoint the nominees as members of the commission.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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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. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66578. The commission shall compile and maintain a list of qualified handlers.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 17.)
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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 to such nomination and appointment procedures as shall be established by the rules and regulations adopted by the commission in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and approved by the director.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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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 be filled by a qualified handler who is nominated by the handler members of the commission and appointed by the director. Handlers to be considered for appointment to fill any such vacancy shall, if possible, be handlers whose names are submitted for consideration by the remaining handler members of the district in which the vacancy occurs. Any nomination requires a plurality of votes cast by the handler members. The appointment to a vacated handler member position is for the unexpired term of office. Any vacancy of a handler member position occurring within six months prior to a regular district election may remain vacant until the next regular election.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 18.)
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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 for the transaction of all business and the carrying out of the duties of the commission. However, pending the appointment of initial members-at-large and the public representative, eight handler members constitute the quorum. Members-at-large who are handlers may be deemed handler members, if necessary, to fulfill the requirements of a quorum. Unless otherwise provided by this chapter or fixed by the commission, the vote of a majority of the commission members present at the meeting and constituting a quorum shall constitute the act of the commission.
(b) Ten members of the commission, of which at least nine are handler members, constitute a quorum during any period in which the commission is increased to 19 members pursuant to Section 66561. All other provisions of subdivision (a) otherwise apply to this subdivision.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 6.)
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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 by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 7.)
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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 in actual attendance on, or in traveling to and from, meetings of the commission or on special assignment for the commission, together with travel expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, maximum allowances for which shall be established by the commission.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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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 commission or paid to it shall be deposited in such banks as the commission may designate and shall be disbursed by order of the commission through such agent or agents as it may designate for that purpose. Any such agent or agents shall be bonded by a fidelity bond, executed by a surety company authorized to transact business as such in the State of California, in favor of the commission, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duties and the strict accounting of all funds of the commission, in the penal sum of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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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 the administration of this chapter or acts of the commission shall be limited to the funds collected by the commission. No member of the commission or any employee or agent thereof shall be personally liable on the contracts of the commission nor shall a commissioner or employees of such commission be responsible individually in any way to any producer, handler, shipper, or any other person for errors in judgment, mistakes, or other acts, either of commission or omission, as principal, agent, or employee of the commission, except for their own individual acts of dishonesty or crime. No commissioner shall be held responsible individually for act or omission of any other member of such commission. The liability of the commissioners shall be several and not joint, and no commissioner shall be liable for the default of any other commissioner.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66601. The provisions of this chapter, except as necessary to conduct the vote, shall not become operative until the director finds in a referendum conducted by him or her that not less than 40 percent of the handlers, as defined in Section 66532 and as determined in accordance with Section 66573, have participated and that either of the following occurs:
(a) Sixty-five percent or more of the handlers voting marketed at least a majority of the total quantity of iceberg lettuce marketed in the preceding marketing season by all of the handlers who voted in the referendum and they voted in favor of this chapter.
(b) A majority of the handlers voting marketed 65 percent or more of the total quantity of iceberg lettuce marketed in the preceding marketing season by all the handlers who voted in referendum and they voted in favor of this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 20.)
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66602. The director shall establish a period in which to conduct such vote which shall not be less than 30 days nor more than 90 days from the date this section becomes operative, and may prescribe such additional procedure as may be necessary to conduct such vote.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66603. Nonreceipt of a ballot shall not invalidate such vote.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66604. If the director finds that a favorable vote has been given as provided in Section 66601, he shall so certify and announce to the commission and file notice thereof by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in each district in accordance with Section 6066 of the Government Code and shall mail a copy of such notice to all handlers whose names and addresses may be on file. All provisions of this chapter shall become operative upon completion of such publication but not before 15 days after such certification by the director to the commission.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66605. If the director finds that a favorable vote has not been given under Section 66601, he or she shall so certify to the commission and shall declare this chapter inoperative.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 21.)
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66621. (a) There is hereby levied and imposed upon all iceberg lettuce harvested and marketed in each fiscal year, an assessment to be paid by the handlers of the lettuce and fixed by not less than 10 of the 14 handler members of the commission at the amount determined by these commissioners as reasonably necessary to pay all obligations incurred, or expected to be incurred, in accordance with this chapter and as reasonably necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of this chapter.
(b) The assessment shall not exceed two and one-half cents ($0.025) per standard carton of packed iceberg lettuce or five cents per hundred pounds ($0.05 per cwt.) of iceberg lettuce prepared for market or equivalent basis.
(c) A fee greater than the amount provided for in subdivision (b) may not be charged unless and until a greater fee is approved by handlers, as defined in Section 66532, under the procedures in Section 66601.
(d) There shall be exempt from the assessments all shipments of 150 pounds or less of iceberg lettuce sold or shipped by a handler directly to the consumer.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 9.)
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66622. Every handler shall keep a complete and accurate record of all iceberg lettuce handled by him and the producer thereof. Such records should be in simple form and contain such information as the commission shall prescribe by regulation. In the event such records are required to be kept under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, the format provided therein may be utilized by such handlers in preparing such records.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66623. Every handler shall, at such times as the commission may by rule or regulation require, file with the commission a report, under oath, on forms to be prescribed and furnished by the commission, stating the quantity of iceberg lettuce handled by him or her during the period or periods of time prescribed by the commission, the names of the producers in each district for which the handling was done, and further information as may be necessary in the discretion of the commission to carry out the object and purposes of this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 958, Sec. 10.)
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66624. Any information obtained by the commission from handlers shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except when required in a judicial proceeding.
(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 434.)
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66625. Assessments provided for in this article are levied upon the handler first marketing the iceberg lettuce being assessed. The handler is a trustee of the funds until they are paid to the commission at the time and in the manner prescribed by the commission. Failure of a handler to collect the assessment does not exempt the handler from liability for payment.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 25.)
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66626. Every handler is primarily and personally liable for the payment of an assessment. Any handler who fails to file a return or pay any assessment within the time required by the commission shall pay to the commission a penalty of 10 percent of the amount of the assessment determined to be due and, in addition, 2 percent interest per month on the unpaid balance. The penalty and interest are required to be paid to the commission and are available for expenditure in the same manner as an assessment.
(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 555, Sec. 26.)