§ 2.40.040. Commissioner/director—Additional duties.  


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  • Under the direction and supervision of the board, and subject to its direction, the additional duties of the commissioner/director shall be as follows:

    A.

    Weed, Brush, and Rubbish Hazard Abatement. To protect the health, safety, and property of citizens and to improve environmental quality through the elimination of hazardous weeds, brush, and rubbish on unimproved property;

    B.

    Agricultural Product Quality Control. To protect the consumer from low-quality and incorrectly labeled food and other agricultural commodities through enforcement of state quality standards pertaining to fruits, nuts, vegetables, honey, salad products, eggs, seed, and nursery stock sold at wholesale and retail outlets throughout Los Angeles County;

    C.

    Pesticide Use, Enforcement, and Training. To protect the environment, agricultural crops, agricultural workers, and the public from harmful effects of pesticides by regulating pest control operators, advisors, pesticides dealers, and other users; to prevent careless or illegal use of pesticides by county workers through training and monitoring;

    D.

    Pest Exclusion and Eradication. To protect the agricultural crop production, nursery stock, ornamental landscaping, and the environment in general, through exclusion and eradication of new and economically damaging insects, diseases, animals, and weed pests not established here;

    E.

    Pest Control and Management. To control or reduce the spread of established animals, weeds, insects, diseases, and pests detrimental to agriculture, ornamental landscaping, or the environment through biologically sound and efficient control methods;

    F.

    Device Inspection. The systematic and periodic inspection and testing of all commercially-used weighing and measuring devices to insure compliance with specified tolerances and specifications;

    G.

    Package Commodity Inspection. To prevent monetary loss to consumers and producers of all products which are sold by weight, measure, or count by the inspection of prepackaged products to see the full measure is received;

    H.

    Fraud Prevention. The prevention of fraud and deception in the marketplace through the investigation of complaints, issuance of direct court citations, and the prosecution of violators by test purchasing, weighmaster investigations, and gasoline meter checking in the service station;

    I.

    Metrological Services. To provide certification of measurement standards as requested by industry on a cost-recovery basis.

(Ord. 84-0063 § 2 (part), 1984.)