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CHAP 972 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OREGON ALBACORE COMMISSION DIVISION 30 COMMISSION MAKE-UP, TERMS, QUALIFICATIONS, TERM LIMITS, REMOVAL FROM OFFICE



The Oregon Administrative Rules contain OARs filed through July 14, 2006

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, OREGON ALBACORE COMMISSION


DIVISION 30

COMMISSION MAKE-UP, TERMS, QUALIFICATIONS,

TERM LIMITS, REMOVAL FROM OFFICE

972-030-0010

Number of Commissioners, Terms

The Oregon Albacore Commission will consist of seven commissioners appointed by the Director of the Oregon Department of Agriculture for a term of three years or, if for a term following a prior term for that person, ending three years from the date of expiration of any prior term.

Stat. Auth.: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Stats. Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Hist.: AC 1-2004, f. 1-15-04 cert. ef. 1-16-04

972-030-0020

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 Oregon Albacore 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 Albacore tuna;

(b) Three members will be producers;

(c) Three members will be handlers;

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

Stat. Auth.: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Stats. Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Hist.: AC 1-2004, f. 1-15-04 cert. ef. 1-16-04

972-030-0030

Removal of Commissioners

The Commission may recommend that the Director of the Department of Agriculture remove a commissioner from office, and declare the position vacant for cause.

Stat. Auth.: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Stats. Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Hist.: AC 1-2004, f. 1-15-04 cert. ef. 1-16-04

972-030-0040

Chair and Other Officers

Annually, at the Budget Hearing of the Commission for the new fiscal year, the Commission will elect from its members a Chair and a Vice Chair who will serve until their successors are elected and qualified. The Chair and Vice Chair may resign as such or may be removed from that position by vote of four Commissioners. If the Chair or Vice Chair ceases to be a Commissioner, the office will be vacant and a successor will be selected at the next regular meeting of the Commission. The Chair will preside over all meetings of the Commission. The Vice Chair will act in lieu of the Chair when the Chair is unable to perform the duties of the office of Chair or while the office is vacant.

Stat. Auth.: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Stats. Implemented: 2003 OL Ch. 604, ORS 576
Hist.: AC 1-2004, f. 1-15-04 cert. ef. 1-16-04


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