Section 56185 Of Article 4. Licenses From California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 20. >> Chapter 7. >> Article 4.
56185
. The department shall accept or deny an application within 90
calendar days of receipt of a completed application. The department
may deny, condition, suspend, or revoke a license issued pursuant to
this chapter upon any of the following grounds and in the manner
provided in this chapter:
(a) Upon one flagrant violation, as determined by the department,
or upon repeated violations, by the holder or applicant, of any one
or combination of the sections of this division or under any one or
combination of the regulations promulgated by the department under
the authority of this division.
(b) Upon one flagrant violation, as determined by the department,
or upon repeated violations, by a holder's or applicant's agent,
employee, or contractor, or of an organization or entity in which the
holder or applicant holds a significant financial interest, of any
one or combination of the sections of this division or any one or
combination of the regulations promulgated under this division under
circumstances where the holder or applicant knew or should have known
and failed to take reasonable measures to prevent the violation or
failed to report the violation to the department upon learning of the
violation.
(c) Upon the conviction of the holder or applicant of a crime that
includes as one of its elements the financial victimization of
another person. However, if the licensee was licensed prior to
January 1, 1998, and the department knew of, or was on notice of, the
conviction, that conviction may not form the basis of a disciplinary
action under this subdivision.
(d) On the grounds of a false or misleading statement by a holder
or applicant that the holder or applicant knew or should have known
to be false or misleading, directed to any official of any government
concerning the scope of any indicia of authority, including, but not
limited to, the holder's or applicant's license associated with the
holder's or applicant's business, the standards under which the
indicia was authorized, the contents of the application for
licensure, or the holder's or applicant's relationship to the
indicia.
(e) On the grounds that a holder or applicant, or a holder's or
applicant's agency, employee, or contractor, or an organization or
entity in which a holder or applicant holds a significant financial
interest, deceived a grower in any material matter. Deception, for
purposes of this subdivision, does not require scienter, but requires
active misrepresentation where the actor knew the representation to
be false or where the actor should have known, with due
consideration, that he or she did not know whether or not the
representation was true or false.