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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 county of Yolo 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 Imperial shall constitute agricultural district No. 45. Formation of associations.

§2. Any fifty or more persons residents of a majority of the counties embraced within any of the above districts may form an association for the purpose of holding fairs, expositions and exhibitions of all of the industries and industrial enterprises, resources and products of every kind or nature of the state with a view of improving, exploiting, encouraging and stimulating the same.

Officers.

§3. The officers of such association shall consist of eight directors to be appointed by the governor of the state of California who shall constitute a district board of agriculture for said district; provided however, 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.

Appointment of directors.

§4. After the formation of an 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; and thereafter there shall be two members of said board appointed in the same manner every year whose term of office shall continue four years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

Terms of office.

§ 5. Within ten days after their appointment 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, the second class at the end of the second fiscal year, the third class at the end of the third fiscal year and the fourth class at the end of the fourth fiscal year; 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 3 of this act. And the agricultural associations heretofore established shall be continued in force, and are made agricultural associations under this act.

Organization.

§ 6. The fiscal year shall be from December 1st to December 1st. and the persons so appointed shall qualify as required by the constitu tion, and shall meet at a place within the district and organize by the election of one of their number as president of the board, who shall hold said office of president one year and until his successor is elected; they shall also elect a secretary and treasurer not of their number. Name of association, and powers.

§ 7. Each association so formed and organized is hereby declared and shall be recognized as a state institution, and shall be known and designated by the name of district agricultural association, and by such name and style shall have perpetual succession and shall have power to contract, to sue and to be sued, to have a seal, to purchase, to hold and lease real estate and personal property, and may sell, lease, beautify, improve and dispose of the same, and do any and all acts and things necessary to carry out the objects and purposes for which said associations are formed; and the board so appointed and qualified shall have the exclusive control and management of such institution, for and in the name of the state, and shall have possession and care of all the property of the association and shall fix the term of office and the bonds of the secretary and treasurer and determine their salaries and duties. They shall have the power to make all necessary by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the association and the management of its prudential and financial affairs. They may provide for a fair, exposition or exhibition by the association of all industries and industrial products in the district or state, at such time and place as they deem advisable; provided, that the state, shall in no event, be liable for any premium offered or award made, or on account of any premium offered or award made, or on account of any contract made by any district board of agriculture or agricultural association; provided however, that any such agricultural association having a speedway or race course upon any lands owned by it, or under its control, shall maintain the same for the purpose of holding speed contests and training and speeding horses thereon. Advances from state association.

§ 8. Whenever such association shall have been formed within any of the districts provided for, and it is proposed to hold an agri

cultural fair in said district, the secretary of the board of directors of the district, shall notify the state board of agriculture of the said intention, and shall also forward to the board of agriculture a list of the articles upon which premiums are to be paid and the amount upon each item, and the said board shall have the power to advance to said association a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) to pay said premiums out of any money that may have been appropriated to the said state agricultural society for that purpose, and which may at the time be available; provided, however, that no one district shall receive such aid for more than one fair in any one year.

State aid.

§ 9. The fairs or exhibitions to be given by the district agricultural association shall be held at such place or places within such districts, as the board of directors of the said district may select. But only one of such district fairs shall receive state aid in any district during any given year, and the money provided by the state as premium money shall be applied to exhibits at this one fair; provided however, whenever the board of directors of two or more agricultural districts shall, by a majority vote of each board, elect to unite, the several districts may associate and combine as one district, and hold a fair in any of said districts that may be agreed on by the board of directors of said associations so combining, and may for such purpose draw the appropriation for all the said districts, and expend the same for said fair.

Reports to state association.

§ 10. The directors of such agricultural district herein created shall each year make a full and complete report of all transactions of the said association to the state board of agriculture.

§ 11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 12. This act shall take effect immediately from and after its pas

sage.

ACT 69.

To form agricultural districts, etc. [Stats. 1880, p. 62.]

Amended 1883, p. 30; 1885, pp. 39, 126; 1887, p. 80; 1889, p. 78; and partly, if not wholly, repealed by 1891, p. 138; 1895, p. 14.

Citations. Cal. 151/799, 801; 154/121.

ACT 70.

To form agricultural districts, and provide for the management and control of the same. [Stats. 1891, p. 138.]

Amended 1893, p. 282; 1895, pp. 14, 100.

Citations. Cal. 151/804; 154/124.

АСТ 71.

For the encouragement of agricultural and other industries. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 442.]

Probably repealed by Statutes of 1880, p. 49, and 1880, p. 62.
Citations. Cal. 151/799.

АСТ 72.

Encouragement of agriculture. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 332.] Superseded by 1880, pp. 49, 62; 1897, p. 304.

This act authorized appropriations for certain societies.

Citations. Cal. 151/799.

АСТ 73.

For the better protection of fruit trees and vines. [Stats. 1880, p. 36.] Superseded 1897, p. 244.

Citations. Cal. 151/801.

АСТ 74.

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An act to prevent the propagation by the production of seed, of that certain plant known as Sorghum halepense, otherwise known Johnson grass.

[Approved March 20, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 337. Amended 1907, p. 876.]

§ 1. It shall be unlawful for any person owning, controlling, leasing, or possessing land in the state of California to knowingly permit that certain grass known as Sorghum halepense, otherwise known as Johnson grass, Cnicus arvensis, otherwise known as Canadian thistle, Salsoli kali, otherwise known as Russian thistle, and Onopordon acanthium, otherwise known as Scotch thistle, and Cnicus lanceolatus, otherwise known as bull thistle, to mature and disseminate its seed on land so owned, leased or possessed by such person.

[Amendment approved March 22, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 876. In effect from and after its passage.]

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to sow or disseminate or cause to be sown or disseminated, any seed of Sorghum halepense, otherwise known as Johnson grass, Cnicus arvensis, otherwise known as Canadian thistle, Salsoli kali, otherwise known as Russian thistle, and Cnopordon acanthium, otherwise known as Scotch thistle, and Cnicus lanceolatus, otherwise known as bull thistle, upon any land owned or possessed by another.

[Amendment approved March 22, 1907. Stats, 1907, p. 877. In effect from and after its passage.]

§3. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sow, disseminate, or cause or permit to be disseminated any seed of Sorghum halepense, otherwise known as Johnson grass, Cnicus arvensis, otherwise known as Canadian thistle, Salsoli kali, otherwise known as Russian thistle, and Onopordon acanthium, otherwise known as Scotch thistle,

and Cnicus lanceolatus, otherwise known as bull thistle, over or along any roadway, highway, or right of way for ditch purposes, adjacent to premises owned or possessed by him.

[Amendment approved March 22, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 877. In effect from and after its passage.]

§4. Any person upon being duly convicted of a violation of any of the preceding sections of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, for a term not exceeding three months.

§5. This act shall take effect immediately from and after its passage. ACT 75.

An act authorizing district agricultural associations organized under the laws of the state of California, to lease lands owned, managed or controlled, in trust or otherwise, to municipal corporations, counties or cities and counties, in which such lands are situated, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

[Approved April 22, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 1082.]

§ 1. Any district agricultural association organized, or hereafter or ganized under the laws of the state of California, is hereby authorized and empowered to lease lands owned, managed or controlled by said association, whether in trust or otherwise, not needed for the permanent use of said association, to any municipal corporation, county, or city and county, in which said lands are located, for a period not to exceed fifty years, for purposes not inconsistent with the objects and purposes for which said association is formed and for which said lands are held, owned, or controlled by it.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

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Streets in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 795.]

This act related to Park Street, Santa Clara Avenue, Railroad Avenue, Buena Vista Avenue, and Third Avenue.

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