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DIVISION 13. BEE MANAGEMENT AND HONEY PRODUCTION 29000-29812›CHAPTER 2. Honey 29401-29735›ARTICLE 12. Public Nuisances 29731-29735

§ 29733

California Food and Agricultural Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

If a packer or owner of honey, or the agent of either, after notification to the packer, owner, or agent that the honey and its containers are a public nuisance, refuses, or fails within a reasonable time, to recondition or remark the honey so as to comply with all requirements of this chapter, the honey and its containers:

(a) May be seized by the director or any enforcement officer.

(b) By order of the superior court of the county within which the honey and its containers may be located, shall be condemned and destroyed, or released upon conditions the court, in its discretion, may impose to ensure that it will not be packed, delivered for shipment, shipped, transported, or sold in violation of this chapter. A proceeding under this section is a limited civil case if the value of the property in controversy is less than or equal to the maximum amount in controversy for a limited civil case under Section 85 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

(Amended by Stats. 2007, Ch. 43, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 2008.)

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