Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 624 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OREGON ALFALFA SEED COMMISSION
Division 30 - COMMISSION MAKE-UP, TERMS, QUALIFICATIONS, TERM LIMITS, REMOVAL FROM OFFICE
Section 624-030-0020 - Qualifications of Commissioners

(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, if any,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.

(a) There will be no public member of the Oregon Alfalfa Seed Commission as long as partial refund is offered.

(b) A majority of the members will be producers;

(c) At least one member will be a handler;

(d) All members who are not a handler or the public member will be producers.