§ 45017 Avocado Harvest Weather Restrictions

(a) The committee may recommend to the director that avocados subject to weather-related damage not be harvested for a specified period of time and the director may restrict harvesting based on that recommendation. (b) The director shall adopt regulations which govern the committee’s recommendations made pursuant to this section. The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (1) The maximum period of time for which harvesting may not be done. (2) The geographical region for which the recommendation would be made. (3) The minimum level of damage required in order to make a recommendation. (4) The manner in which affected growers and handlers are to be notified of the decision of the director. (5) A definition of weather-related damage. (6) Procedures and criteria for issuing exemptions to growers from the decision of the director made pursuant to this section and for the handling of avocados from an exempt grower. (Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1013, Sec. 1.)