SECTIONS 64041-64043 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 64041-64043

64041. It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative
determination, that the provisions of this chapter are enacted in the
exercise of the police power of this state for the purposes of
protecting and furthering the public health and welfare. It is
further declared that the dairy industry of this state is affected
with a public interest, in that, among other things:
(a) The production, processing, manufacture, and distribution of
milk and other dairy products constitute a paramount industry of this
state which not only provides substantial and required revenues for
the state and its political subdivisions, and employment and a means
of livelihood for many thousands of its population, but also
furnishes essential foods that are vital to the public health and
welfare.
(b) The stabilization, maintenance, and expansion of the dairy
industry of California, and of the state, nationwide, and foreign
markets for its products, are necessary to assure the consuming
public an adequate supply of foods which are indispensable in a
proper human diet, to protect, for the state and its political
subdivisions, a necessary source of tax revenue, to provide and
maintain an adequate standard of living for a great segment of the
population of this state, to maintain proper wage scales for those
engaged in the dairy industry, and to maintain existing employment.
(c) The essentiality of milk and other dairy products in a proper
human nutrition and to the maintenance of a high level of public
health is such as to require that the public be made thoroughly aware
thereof, and be protected against misrepresentation and deception,
by the dissemination of accurate and scientific information relative
to the healthful qualities of dairy products, their various
classifications and the food values and industrial and medicinal uses
thereof, the methods, care and precautions necessary to their proper
production, processing, manufacture, and distribution, and the
necessary costs and expenses thereof, and the necessity and
desirability on the part of the public of using and consuming dairy
products of the highest standards of quality.

64042. The purposes of this chapter are as follows:
(a) To enable the dairy industry with the aid of the state, to
develop, maintain, and expand the state, nationwide, and foreign
markets for dairy products which are produced, processed, or
manufactured in this state, and the use and consumption of such dairy
products therein.
(b) In aid, but not in limitation, of this purpose, to authorize
and enable the director to formulate and effectuate, directly or in
cooperation with other agencies and instrumentalities hereinafter
specified, sales stimulation and consumer, or other, educational
programs designed to increase the use and consumption of milk and
other dairy products.
(c) To provide funds for the administration and enforcement of
this chapter by fees to be paid by producers and handlers of dairy
products, in the manner which is prescribed in this chapter.

64043. This chapter shall be liberally construed. If any section,
sentence, clause, or part of this chapter is, for any reason, held to
be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision does not affect the
remaining portion of this chapter but such unconstitutional or
invalid provision is separable from the valid parts of this chapter.