Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 669 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OREGON SWEET CHERRY COMMISSION
Division 30 - COMMISSION MAKE-UP, DUTIES OF OFFICERS AND REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES
Section 669-030-0020 - Qualifications of Commissioners

Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 669-030-0020

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 Sweet Cherry 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 sweet cherries;

(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 number of commissioners from each of the following regions will be:

(a) Three (3) producers from Western Oregon (all areas west of the Cascade Mountains);

(b) Five (5) producers from the Columbia River area (Wasco and Hood River Counties);

(c) One (1) producer from Eastern Oregon; and

(d) Two (2) handlers (one brine processor and one fresh handler).

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3) of this section, if following reasonable efforts to recruit a member from a particular region, a position remains vacant for more than one meeting, or two months, 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: 2003 OL Ch. 604 & ORS 576

Statutes/Other Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604 & ORS 576

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