2011 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code
DIVISION 4. PLANT QUARANTINE AND PEST CONTROL [5001 - 8808]
ARTICLE 2. General Provisions
Section 5026
(a) The director may overrule a local agency s ordinance or regulation where that ordinance or regulation would prevent or inhibit an eradication effort. The director may act under this section only when the Governor has declared a state of emergency relating to the eradication effort and the effect of the local ordinance or regulation will be to threaten agriculture on a statewide basis, to materially interfere with the ability of the director or the commissioner to eradicate a pest, or where the pest is of such a nature that it could rapidly spread to other areas beyond the boundaries of the local agency.
(b) Local agency means any public agency, other than a state agency, board, or commission and includes, but is not limited to, cities (chartered or otherwise), counties, and special districts.
(Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1531, Sec. 1.)
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