Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1)
For purposes of this rule:
(a) A "producer" is
a person growing or producing within this state or procuring within the state,
its rivers or the offshore waters, but not the Columbia River, for commercial
handling within the state, a commodity for market, or receiving a share thereof
as landowner, landlord, tenant, sharecropper, boat skipper or otherwise. A
producer must have paid the commission assessment on the commodity in each of
the preceding three calendar years.
(b) A "handler" is any producer, processor,
distributor or other person engaged in handling or marketing of or dealing in
the commodity, whether as owner, agent, employee, broker or otherwise. A
handler must have collected the commission assessment, if any, each of the
preceding three calendar years.
(2) Members of the Oregon Dairy Products
Commission will have the following qualifications, which will continue during
the term of office of the member:
(a) One
member of the commission will be a member of the public with an active interest
in the positive economic development, production and/or marketing of the
commodity, but who is not associated with the production or handling of dairy
products;
(b) A majority of the
members will be producers;
(c) One
member will be a handler;
(d) All
members who are not a handler or the public member will be producers.
(3) In addition to the
qualifications set forth in subsection (2) of this rule, the districts and the
number of producer members will be:
(a)
Tillamook / North Coast: Clatsop, Tillamook, and Lincoln counties - two (2)
producer members.
(b) Willamette /
Southern Oregon: Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, Lane, Linn,
Benton, Marion, Polk, Yamhill, Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Coos, and
Curry counties - two (2) producer members.
(c) Central and Eastern Oregon: Malheur,
Baker, Wallowa, Union, Grant, Umatilla, Harney, Deschutes, Crook, Jefferson,
Hood River, Wasco, Morrow, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler and Lake counties - two
(2) producer members.
(4) One (1) handler member will be appointed
from any district.
(5)
Notwithstanding subsection (3) of this section, if a position remains vacant
for more than 90 days following reasonable efforts to recruit a member from a
particular district, a person may be appointed at large and may reside anywhere
within the State of Oregon. Once that person's term expires and he or she is
not reappointed, the position will again be subject to the geographic
qualification requirements of subsection (3) of this section.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 576
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS576.206 & ORS
576.225
