ADVERTISEMENTS. See Fraudulent Reports. AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONS. An act entitled an act to form agricultural districts, to provide for formation of agricultural associations therein, and for the management and control of the same by the state, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act. Approved March 31, 1897; stats. 1897, p. 304. The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. Agricultural districts defined. Representation where two or more counties form one district. Formation of association. 2. 3. 4. Officers of association. 11. 12. Sale of real estate. Election for issuance of capital stock as a corporation. 13. Time act shall take effect. Agricultural districts defined. SECTION 1. The several counties of this state are divided and classified into agricultural districts and numbered as follows to wit: The counties of San Francisco and Alameda shall constitute agricultural district No. 1. The county of San Joaquin shall constitute agricultural district No. 2. The county of Butte shall constitute agricultural district No. 3. The counties of Sonoma and Marin shall constitute agricultural district No. 4. The counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara shall constitute agricultural district No. 5. The county of Los Angeles shall constitute agricultural district No. 6. The county of Monterey shall constitute agricultural district No. 7. The county of El Dorado shall constitute agricultural district No. 8. The county of Humboldt shall constitute agricultural district No. 9. The county of Siskiyou shall constitute agricultural district No. 10. The counties of Plumas and Sierra shall constitute agricultural district No. 11; provided, that the first fair held in the eleventh agricultural district after the passage of this act shall be held in Sierra county; the next fair in Plumas county, and thereafter said counties shall so alternate in holding such fairs. The county of Lake shall constitute agricultural district No. 12. The counties of Sutter and Yuba shall constitute agricultural district No. 13. The county of Santa Cruz shall constitute agricultural district No. 14. The county of Kern shall constitute agricultural district No. 15. The county of San Luis Obispo shall constitute agricultural district No. 16. The county of Nevada shall constitute agricultural district No. 17. The counties of Mono, Inyo, and Alpine shall constitute agricultural district No. 18. All that portion of Santa Barbara county lying east of the Gaviota and south of the Santa Ynez mountains, shall constitute agricultural district No. 19. The county of Placer shall constitute agricultural district No. 20. The counties of Fresno and Madera shall constitute agricultural district No. 21. The county of San Diego shall constitute agricultural district No. 22. The county of Contra Costa shall constitute agricultural district No. 23. The counties of Tulare and Kings shall constitute agricultural district No. 24. The county of Napa shall constitute agricultural district No. 25. The county of Amador shall constitute agricultural district No. 26. The counties of Shasta and Trinity shall constitute agricultural district No. 27. The counties of San Bernardino and Riverside shall constitute agricultural district No. 28. The county of Tuolumne shall constitute agricultural district No. 29. The county of Tehama shall constitute agricultural district No. 30. The county of Ventura shall constitute agricultural district No. 31. The county of Orange shall constitute agricultural district No. 32. The county of San Benito shall constitute agricultural district No. 33. The county of Modoc shall constitute agricultural district No. 34. The counties of Merced and Mariposa shall constitute agricultural district No. 35. The county of Solano shall constitute agricultural district No. 36. All that portion of Santa Barbara county not included in agricultural district No. 19 shall constitute agricultural district No. 37. The county of Stanislaus shall constitute agricultural district No. 38. The county of Calaveras shall constitute agricultural district No. 39. The counties of Yolo and Sacramento shall constitute agricultural district No. 40. The county of Del Norte shall constitute agricultural district No. 41. The county of Glenn shall constitute agricultural district No. 42. The county of Lassen shall constitute agricultural district No. 43. The county of Colusa shall constitute agricultural district No. 44. The county of Mendocino shall constitute agricultural district No. 45. The county of Imperial shall constitute agricultural district No. 46. [Sec. 1 amended April 19, 1909; stats. 1909, p. 994; in effect immediately.] Representation where two or more counties form one district. SEC. 2. Where two or more counties shall constitute an agricultural district, each county shall be represented in the district board of directors by at least two resident citizens, as directors in said board; provided, that when by reason of the formation of a new agricultural district, a director of one district becomes a resident of another, his term of office as director will expire in sixty days after the formation of the new agricultural district. Whenever the board of directors of two or more agricultural districts shall, by a majority vote of each board, elect to unite, the said several districts may associate as one district, and hold a fair in any of said districts, and may for such purpose draw the appropriation for all of said districts, and expend the same for said fair. Formation of association. SEC. 3. Any fifty or more persons, representing a majority of the counties within any one of the districts above constituted, may form an association, for the improvement of the material industries within such district, and when so formed, the association shall be known and designated by the name of agricultural association, and by such name and style shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power and authority to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, to purchase and hold and lease real estate, with such buildings and improvements as may be erected thereon, and may sell and lease and dispose of the same at pleasure. The said real estate, except as hereinafter provided, shall be used by such association for the purpose of holding exhibitions of horses, cattle, and other stock, and of the agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, mechanical, manufacturing, and domestic products of such district, with a view to the improvement of all industries in the same. But the said association shall have the power, and are hereby authorized, to sell and convey any portion of the real estate held by it, by whatever title derived, which may not be necessary for the permanent use of said association for the purposes aforesaid. Officers of association. SEC. 4. The officers of such association shall consist of eight directors, who shall constitute a district board of agriculture for district No. ; a president, who shall be one of their number, and a secretary and treasurer, not of their number. Appointments by governor. SEC. 5. Within ten days after the formation of any new agricultural association within any of the districts above constituted in accordance with the provisions of this act, and notice of such formation to the governor, the governor shall appoint eight resident citizens of such district as members of a district board of agriculture for said district, whose term of office shall be four years, except as hereinafter provided. Organization of board of directors. SEC. 6. Within ten days after their appointment, the persons so appointed shall qualify as required by the constitution, and shall meet at a place within the district and organize by the election of one of their number as president of the board and association, who shall hold said office of president one year, and until his successor is elected; they shall also elect a secretary and treasurer. Terms of office. SEC. 7. At the same meeting the members of the board shall, by lot or otherwise, classify themselves into four classes of two members each. The term of office of the first class shall expire at the end of the first fiscal year; of the second class, of the second fiscal year; of the third class, of the third fiscal year; and of the fourth class, at the end of the full term of four years. The fiscal year shall be from December first to December first; provided, that all officers of agricultural districts now in office, under any law heretofore passed, shall hold office for the term for which they were appointed, except in cases specified in section two of this act. And the agricultural associations heretofore established shall be continued in force, and, so far as applicable, are made agricultural associations under this act. |