2005 California Food and Agricultural Code Sections 9671-9674 Article 7. Interagency Cooperation

9671.  The director shall meet periodically with the livestock
sanitary officials or committees of other states, the duly authorized
agricultural representatives of other states and of the United
States, or any of them, for the purpose of coordinating livestock
sanitary activities within this state and among the several states
which have common or similar problems in the field of livestock
disease and the prevention, quarantine, eradication, or control of
livestock disease.
9672.  A county may appropriate and expend money from the general
fund of the county to carry on investigation, inspection, control,
and eradication of disease in domestic animals.  For such purposes it
may enter into agreements with the department or with any other
county and the department.
9673.  An agreement which is entered into pursuant to Section 9672
may do all of the following:
   (a) Provide that payments from the county treasuries may be made
to the department and disbursed only for investigation, inspection,
control and eradication of disease in domestic animals within any
county which is a party to the agreement.
   (b) Provide that the department shall have full control and
supervision in carrying on the work which is provided for.
   (c) Be continued for a definite term or until rescinded or
terminated.
   (d) Provide for the method by which it may be rescinded or
terminated by any of the parties to the agreement.
9674.  An agreement which is entered into pursuant to Section 9672
shall provide for the disposition, division, or distribution of any
property which is acquired as the result of the joint exercise of
powers, and the return of any surplus moneys, in proportion to the
contributions which were made, after the agreement has been
completed.