Added by Stats. 2025, Ch. 198, Sec. 3. (AB 1505) Effective January 1, 2026.
(a)An enforcing officer may enter and inspect any place or conveyance where products are produced, stored, packed, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, transported, or sold pertaining to a certified mobile farmers’ market over which they have jurisdiction.
(b)An enforcing officer may inspect all documentation, products, containers, and equipment found in any place or conveyance to determine compliance with this chapter or the regulations adopted thereunder. The enforcing officer may also take representative samples of products and containers, which may be subject to any method of inspection or testing as deemed necessary.
(c)An enforcing officer may seize and hold as
evidence all or any part of any container, pack, load, bulk lot, consignment, or shipment of products that is packed, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, transported, or sold to secure the conviction of the party the enforcing officer knows, or believes, has violated, or is violating, this chapter or the regulations adopted thereunder.
(d)Any evidence that is seized by an enforcing officer in any county under the authority of this chapter or the regulations adopted thereunder, may be admitted into evidence in any action taken by any other county.
(e)This chapter does not preclude the creation and keeping of additional information that a certified mobile farmers’ market operator may endeavor itself to create and keep, or contractually require a vendor to provide additional information as a condition to selling in an operator’s certified mobile farmers’
market.
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