Section 10320.  


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  • (a) The department shall annually prepare a delegation program for district agricultural associations to be administered by the Department of Food and Agriculture and the department pursuant to the following criteria:

    (1) The department shall annually review acquisitions to be included in the program and the amount of delegation for each type of acquisition.

    (2) The department shall annually review with the Department of Food and Agriculture the aggregate limit for the delegation program.

    (3) The department shall annually communicate with each fair eligible for the delegation program, information relating to the procedure to be followed for using the delegation, including, but not limited to, the things included in the delegation program.

    (b) The Division of Fairs and Expositions in the Department of Food and Agriculture shall include, as part of its annual expenditure review and approval process presented to the Joint Committee on Fairs Allocation and Classification, a section describing the purchasing delegation authority granted to all district agricultural associations pursuant to subdivision (a). This information shall include, but need not be limited to, the annual amount of purchasing delegation authority requested by, and delegated to, each district agricultural association.

(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 776, Sec. 26. Effective September 27, 2000.)