Food & Agr. Code, § 76963 · Article 9.5. Implementation and Voting Procedure for Handlers
Food & Agr. Code, § 76963
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
This chapter shall not apply to handlers until the secretary finds in a referendum conducted by the secretary under this article that at least 40 percent of the total number of handlers from the list established by the secretary have participated by voting in the referendum, and the secretary finds either of the following:
(a) Sixty-five percent or more of the handlers who voted in the referendum voted in favor of being subject to this chapter, and the handlers who voted in the referendum handled 51 percent or more of the total quantity of salmon landed in the preceding fiscal year by all the handlers who voted in the referendum.
(b) Fifty-one percent of the handlers who voted in the referendum voted in favor of being subject to this chapter, and the handlers who voted in the referendum marketed 65 percent or more of the total quantity of salmon landed in the preceding fiscal year by all of the handlers who voted in the referendum.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 307, Sec. 56. (AB 958) Effective January 1, 2016.
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