Article 7. Interagency Cooperation of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 5. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 7.

The director shall meet periodically with the livestock sanitary officials or committees of other states, the duly authorized agricultural representatives of other states and of the United States, or any of them, for the purpose of coordinating livestock sanitary activities within this state and among the several states which have common or similar problems in the field of livestock disease and the prevention, quarantine, eradication, or control of livestock disease.

A county may appropriate and expend money from the general fund of the county to carry on investigation, inspection, control, and eradication of disease in domestic animals. For such purposes it may enter into agreements with the department or with any other county and the department.

An agreement which is entered into pursuant to Section 9672 may do all of the following:
  (a) Provide that payments from the county treasuries may be made to the department and disbursed only for investigation, inspection, control and eradication of disease in domestic animals within any county which is a party to the agreement.
  (b) Provide that the department shall have full control and supervision in carrying on the work which is provided for.
  (c) Be continued for a definite term or until rescinded or terminated.
  (d) Provide for the method by which it may be rescinded or terminated by any of the parties to the agreement.

An agreement which is entered into pursuant to Section 9672 shall provide for the disposition, division, or distribution of any property which is acquired as the result of the joint exercise of powers, and the return of any surplus moneys, in proportion to the contributions which were made, after the agreement has been completed.