Or. Admin. Code § 669-030-0020 - Qualifications of Commissioners
(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.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: 2003 OL Ch. 604 & ORS 576
Statutes/Other Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604 & ORS 576
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