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 Potato 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 potatoes;
(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.
(3) In addition to the qualifications set forth in
subsection (2) of this rule, the appointments shall be made so that each major
potato-producing area of the state is represented as follows:
(a) Three from the Blue Mountain area, comprised
of the counties of Baker, Union, Wallowa, Grant, Morrow and Umatilla.
(b) One from the area comprised of Malheur and
Harney Counties.
(c) One from central
Oregon, comprised of the counties of Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Sherman, Wasco,
Wheeler and Jefferson.
(d) Two from the
area comprised of Klamath, Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson, Josephine and Lake
counties.
(e) One from the Willamette
Valley area, comprised of the counties of Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Hood
River, Lincoln, Lane, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk, Tillamook, Yamhill and
Washington.
(f) One at-large member
from any of the major potato-producing areas of the state.
(g) One as a member of the public.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3) of
this section, if a position remains vacant for more than 30 days following
reasonable efforts to recruit a member from a particular region, 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.
Stat. Auth.: 2003 OL Ch. 604 & ORS 576
Stats. Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604 & ORS
576
