{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fac-5026","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAC § 5026","heading":"","body":"(a) The director may overrule a local agency’s ordinance or regulation where that ordinance or regulation would prevent or inhibit an eradication effort. The director may act under this section only when the Governor has declared a state of emergency relating to the eradication effort and the effect of the local ordinance or regulation will be to threaten agriculture on a statewide basis, to materially interfere with the ability of the director or the commissioner to eradicate a pest, or where the pest is of such a nature that it could rapidly spread to other areas beyond the boundaries of the local agency.\n(b) “Local agency” means any public agency, other than a state agency, board, or commission and includes, but is not limited to, cities (chartered or otherwise), counties, and special districts.","path":["Food and Agricultural Code - FAC","DIVISION 4. PLANT QUARANTINE AND PEST CONTROL [5001. - 8808.]","PART 1. GENERALLY [5001. - 6299.]","CHAPTER 1. Definitions and General Provisions [5001. - 5035.]","ARTICLE 2. General Provisions [5021. - 5029.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"f58b59ed18d1f1f6933ff03a16a29b9fb7fe5c9857b0c7aa1e0b0da1869c9c83","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fac-5025.5","next":"us-ca/fac-5027"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}