“Shall” is mandatory, and “may” is permissive.
Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 47
GENERAL PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS
Known as the Food and Agricultural Code
The act spans §§ 1–51 (44 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case 16 Cal. 4th 90 - People v. Ledesma (1997)
Most recently applied in 125 Cal. App. 4th 122 - Sonoma Ag Art, LLC v. Department of Food & Agriculture (December 2004)
Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.