Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 647 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OREGON PROCESSED VEGETABLE COMMISSION
Division 15 - COMMISSION MAKE-UP, TERMS, QUALIFICATIONS, TERM LIMITS, REMOVAL FROM OFFICE
Section 647-015-0020 - Qualifications of Commissioners

(a) "Producer" means 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) "Handler" means 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.

(c) "Commission" means the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission.

(a) No more than one member of the Commission will be a member of the public with an active interest in the positive economic development, production and marketing of the commodity, but who is not associated with the production or handling of the six processed vegetables subject to the Commission assessment;

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

(c) No more than three Commission members will be a handler;

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