SECTIONS 431-436 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 431-436

431. The department shall collect and preserve books, pamphlets,
periodicals, and other documents which contain information that
relates to agriculture.

432. The department shall collect and prepare statistics, charts,
films, photographs, and other illustrative or exhibit material and
information which shows the actual condition and progress of
agriculture in this state and elsewhere.

433. The department shall correspond with agricultural societies,
colleges, schools, the commissioners, and with all other persons who
are necessary to secure the best results to agriculture in this
state.

434. The department shall issue and cause to be printed and
distributed to the commissioners, and to such other persons as it may
deem proper, bulletins, charts, photographs or other illustrative
material or statements which contain all the information which is
best adapted to advance the interest, business, and development of
agriculture in the state. The department may broadcast such portions
of the illustrative material or statements as are adapted to give
effect to this code. It may exhibit or display such data and material
as have been collected or prepared, and may incur expenses which are
necessarily incidental to the exhibit or display of such data and
material.

435. The director may establish an identification record service
for parent root and top stock of fruit and nut trees. He shall
establish a reasonable schedule of fees for such service which is
based upon the approximate cost of the service. Upon application of
any person and the payment of the proper fees, the director shall
assign to parent stock an identifying code number and make an
appropriate record of such number.

436. Any money which is received by the department pursuant to
Section 435 shall be paid into the State Treasury and be credited to
the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund. Any money in the
Department of Food and Agriculture Fund which was derived pursuant to
that section may be expended for the administration and enforcement
of any or all of the following which relate to nursery stock,
notwithstanding any other provision of law which limits the
expenditure of the money to some specific purpose or to the
administration or enforcement of some specific section, article,
chapter, or law:
(a) Section 435.
(b) Article 7 (commencing with Section 5821) of Chapter 8 of Part
1 of Division 4.
(c) Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 6701) of Part 3 of Division
4.
(d) Any other provision of Division 4 (commencing with Section
5001), which relates to nursery stock, except Article 5 (commencing
with Section 6001) of Chapter 9 or Chapter 10 (commencing with
Section 6101) of Part 1, Part 5 (commencing with Section 8401), or
Part 6 (commencing with Section 8801) of Division 4.
(e) Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 53301) of Division 18.