2025 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
DIVISION 17 - FRUIT, NUT, AND VEGETABLE STANDARDS
CHAPTER 2 - General Provisions
ARTICLE 7 - Powers of Enforcing Officers
Section 42821.

Universal Citation:
CA Food & Agri Code § 42821 (2025)
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42821. An enforcing officer may enter and inspect any place or conveyance within the county or district over which he has jurisdiction, where any fresh or dried fruits, nuts, or vegetables are produced, stored, packed, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, being transported, or sold.

He may inspect all fresh or dried fruits, nuts, and vegetables and their containers and equipment found in any such place or conveyance. He may also take for inspection, such representative samples of the produce and such containers, as may be necessary to determine whether or not this division has been violated and may subject such samples of produce to any method of inspection or testing.

(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)

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