SECTIONS 58031-58042 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 58031-58042

58031. The director may act as adviser for producers and
distributors, if requested, and assist them in economical and
efficient distribution of any product at fair prices.

58032. The director may gather and disseminate impartial
information which concerns supply, demand, prevailing prices, and
commercial movements, including common and cold storage of any
product.

58033. The director may promote, assist, and encourage the
organization and operation of cooperative and other associations and
organizations for improving the relations and services among
producers, distributors, and consumers of any product, and protect
and conserve the interests of the producers and consignors of
products.

58034. The director may foster and encourage cooperation between
producers and distributors of any product, in the interest of the
general public.

58035. The director may foster and encourage the standardizing,
grading, inspection, labeling, handling, storage, and sale of any
product.

58036. The director may act as a mediator or arbitrator, if invited
by both parties, in any controversy or issue that may arise between
producers and distributors of any product.

58037. The director may certify, for the protection of owners,
buyers, or creditors, if so requested, warehouse receipts for any
product, verifying quantities and qualities of the product, and
charge for such service, fees which are sufficient to make the
service self-supporting.

58038. The director may issue labels on request of the producer,
packer, canner, or distributor, for any product for which labels have
not otherwise been authorized by law, pursuant to such regulations
as he deems necessary and charge for such labels such fees as in his
judgment are proper.

58039. The director may act on behalf of the consumers of any
product in conserving and protecting their interests in every
practicable way.

58040. The director may improve, broaden, and extend in every
practicable way, the distribution and sale of any product of this
state throughout the markets of the world.
This section shall become operative January 1, 1990.

58041. The director may promote in the interest of the producer,
the distributor, and consumer, economical and efficient distribution
and marketing of any product which is produced or processed within
the state and to better effectuate the purposes of this article may
attend necessary meetings and conferences in relation to any such
product and may enter into cooperative agreements with the United
States Department of Agriculture.

58042. The director may enter into any cooperative agreement with
any department or agency of the federal government, or with any other
state or agency of it, in order to effectuate the purposes of this
division, Division 20 (commecing with Section 54001), or of any
marketing law, including any marketing order, marketing program,
regulation, or rule and regulation, which is issued under it, the
responsibility for the administration and enforcement of which is
with the director.