BILL NUMBER: AB 2609	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hueso

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 13000.1 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
relating to agricultural chemicals.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2609, as introduced, Hueso. Agricultural chemicals: pesticides,
restricted materials, livestock drugs, and fertilizers.
   Existing law governs the possession, use, distribution, sale, and
storage of pesticides. Existing law generally requires a Director of
Pesticide Regulation to administer and enforce these provisions and
to develop and adopt related regulations. Existing law also requires
the county agricultural commissioner to administer and enforce
regulations issued pursuant to these provisions. Existing law
authorizes the director or the county agricultural commissioner to
bring an action to enjoin the violation or the threatened violation
of any order made pursuant to the provisions governing the
possession, use, distribution, sale, and storage of pesticides.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
provision authorizing the director or the county agricultural
commissioner to bring an action to enjoin the violation or the
threatened violation of any order made pursuant to the provisions
governing the possession, use, distribution, sale, and storage of
pesticides.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13000.1 of the Food and Agricultural Code is
amended to read:
   13000.1.  The  commissioner   director 
or  director   the commissioner  may bring
an action to enjoin the violation or the threatened violation of any
order made pursuant to this division in the superior court in the
county in which the order is issued or the violation occurs or is
threatened, and the court may enjoin the violation or threatened
violation upon that showing and without further evidence of
irreparable injury. The court may compel specific performance of any
acts or course of conduct necessary to protect persons, animals,
crops, or property.