California Food and Agricultural Code 12812 – (a) The director shall establish, by regulation, fees for the …
(a) The director shall establish, by regulation, fees for the Department of Pesticide Regulation’s registration program, as established pursuant to this division. The fees shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Annual fees for each product submitted for registration.
Terms Used In California Food and Agricultural Code 12812
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
(2) Penalties for the late payment of registration fees.
(3) Fees for amendments to registered products.
(b) The fees established pursuant to this section may include costs for administration and overhead in connection with administering the fees.
(c) The fees established pursuant to this section shall be set so that the total revenue collected each fiscal year is sufficient to support the expenditure levels for the registration program contained in the annual Budget Act.
(d) Funds collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the Department of Pesticide Regulation Fund, and shall be available for expenditure by the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes of carrying out the department’s pesticide registration program, as established pursuant to this division.
(e) The regulations adopted pursuant to this section, or any amendment or readoption thereto, shall be adopted by the director in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. However, the adoption, amendment, readoption, or repeal of these regulations shall be considered by the Office of Administrative Law as an emergency, and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the regulations shall remain in effect until amended by the director.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 741, Sec. 63. Effective January 1, 2004.)