{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fac-52325","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAC § 52325","heading":"","body":"(a) Commissioners of counties that choose to participate in the subvention program shall enter into a cooperative agreement with the secretary, whereby the commissioner agrees to maintain a statewide compliance level, determined by the secretary, on all seed within the county. The cooperative agreement shall be in effect for a five-year period. The amount of the subvention designated to each individual participating county shall be established in a memorandum of understanding between the commissioner and the secretary, in consultation with the board.\n(b) The secretary, upon recommendation of the board or upon the secretary’s own initiative, may withhold a portion of the funds designated to a county if that county fails to meet the performance standards established by the secretary and set forth in the cooperative agreement with that county.\n(c) The secretary shall provide a written justification to the board for any action taken by the secretary that does not fully implement a recommendation made by the board pursuant to subdivision (b).\n(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2027, and, as of January 1, 2031, is repealed.","path":["Food and Agricultural Code - FAC","DIVISION 18. FIELD CROPS, SEEDS, SEED POTATOES, ONE-VARIETY COTTON DISTRICTS, AND NURSERY STOCK GRADES AND STANDARDS [52001. - 53564.]","CHAPTER 2. California Seed Law [52251. - 52515.]","ARTICLE 3.5. Funding [52321. - 52325.]"],"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":"716f5435937052f05002138865589b7911130aeb7bd7d4e464c9b3b11767ad72","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fac-52324","next":"us-ca/fac-52331"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}