(a) “Districts” shall be based on the gross dollar value of the product grown in a geographical area as follows:
(1) District 1 consists of the Counties of Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba.
(2) District 2 consists of the Counties of Fresno, Inyo, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Tulare.
(3) District 3 consists of the Counties of Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura.
(4) District 4 consists of the Counties of Imperial, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego.
(b) The boundaries of any district or the number of board members, or both, may be changed by a two-thirds vote of the membership of the commission, which is concurred in by the director, when necessary to maintain similar total production that represents a gross dollar value among the districts and to ensure proper representation by producers. These boundaries need not coincide with county lines.
(Added by Stats. 1990, Ch. 495, Sec. 1. Effective August 10, 1990.)