2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 17 - FRUIT, NUT, AND VEGETABLE STANDARDS
CHAPTER 10 - Organic Foods
Section 46010.5.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 46010.5 (2025)
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46010.5. (a) No fee established and collected pursuant to this chapter shall exceed the secretary’s costs or the county agricultural commissioner’s costs, as the case may be, of regulating and enforcing the provisions of this chapter related to the function for which the fee is established.

(b) The fees established and collected pursuant to this chapter may be expended, under the advisement of the California Organic Products Advisory Committee, for activities authorized under this chapter, including assisting operations in achieving certification, conducting education and outreach, entering research and development partnerships, and addressing production or marketing obstacles to the growth of the organic sector.

(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 403, Sec. 9. (AB 1826) Effective January 1, 2017.)

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