Section 5851 - Legislative intent to enhance state's business and trade opportunitiesIt is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to enhance the state's business and trade opportunities by authorizing the department to do all of the following:
(a) Perform nonregulatory services such as export market phytosanitary and product quality analyses, certification, diagnostics, inspections, quality assurance, and testing relating to nursery stock, plants, seed, or plant pests and diseases.(b) Accredit and monitor or audit private entities as necessary.(c) Establish charges sufficient to recover its costs for nonregulatory services such as export market phytosanitary and product quality activities.Ca. Food and Agric. Code § 5851
Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 436, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1999.