SECTIONS 6240-6246 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 6240-6246

6240. The district may do all of the following:
(a) Sue and be sued in all actions and proceedings in all courts
and tribunals of competent jurisdiction.
(b) Adopt a seal and alter it at pleasure.
(c) Take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, lease, or otherwise,
and hold, use and enjoy, and lease, or otherwise dispose of, real and
personal property of every kind and description within or without
the district necessary to the full and convenient exercise of its
powers.
(d) Cause assessments to be levied, as provided in Article 5
(commencing with Section 6250), to pay any obligation of the district
and to accomplish the purposes of the district in the manner
provided in this chapter.
(e) Make contracts, and employ, except as otherwise provided in
this chapter, all persons, firms, and corporations necessary to carry
out the purposes and the powers of the district, and at any salary,
wage, or other compensation as the board of directors shall
determine.
(f) Respond to the effects of, the spread of phylloxera and other
winegrape plant pests and diseases and collect and disseminate to
winegrape growers in the district all relevant information and
scientific studies concerning the pest or pests or diseases, as well
as to chart and determine the extent and location of any
infestations.
(g) With reasonable advance notice in writing to the landowner, as
determined by the district, enter into or upon any land included
within the boundaries of the district for the purpose of inspecting
the winegrape plants and any other host plants and fruit growing on
them.
(h) Perform any and all acts, either within or outside the
district, necessary or proper to fully and completely carry out the
purposes for which the district is organized.

6241. Every district formed pursuant to this chapter has all of the
powers prescribed by Section 6240 and other provisions of this
chapter, regardless of any language in the petition for formation for
any district or in any of the proceedings leading to the formation
that would otherwise limit the power of the district.

6242. The county agricultural commissioner of the county in which
the district is located shall, upon request of the board, assist the
district to the extent possible in all activities undertaken by the
district for the control of phylloxera or other winegrape plant pests
or diseases.

6243. The board shall, immediately after its appointment and after
public hearing, formulate an effective plan and adopt a budget of
expenditures for the forthcoming fiscal year. At a public hearing on
the plan and the budget, any owner of winegrape acreage included in
the district may make written or oral protest against the budget or
any item in it. The plan and the budget, as thereafter approved by
the board, shall be the plan and the budget of the district for the
forthcoming fiscal year.

6244. There may be added to the budget for the first fiscal year of
the operation of the district an amount not to exceed 20 percent of
the total amount of the budget to cover the preliminary expenses of
the district, including, but not limited to, the costs of formation,
before the beginning of the first fiscal year.

6245. 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 manner and at the same time that the budget for
the first fiscal year was adopted.

6246. The board of supervisors may charge the district for any
expenses incurred by the county in connection with the proceedings
for the formation of the district, and the district shall reimburse
the county from assessments levied for those expenses.