[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR924.22]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 924_FRESH PRUNES GROWN IN DESIGNATED COUNTIES IN WASHINGTON AND 
IN UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 924.22  Nominations.

    (a) Initial members. Nominations for each of the initial members of 
the committee, together with nominations for the initial alternate 
members for each position, may be submitted to the Secretary by 
individual growers and handlers. Such nominations may be made by means 
of group meetings of the growers and handlers concerned in each 
district. Such nominations, if made, shall be filed with the Secretary 
no later than the effective date of this part. In the event nominations 
for initial members and alternate members of the committees are not 
filed pursuant to, and within the time specified in, this section, the 
Secretary may select such initial members and alternate members without 
regard to nominations, but selections shall be on the basis of the 
representation provided for in Sec. 924.20.
    (b) Successor members. (1) Except as may otherwise be prescribed 
pursuant to paragraph (b)(3) of this section, the committee shall hold 
or cause to be held, not later than March 1 of each year, a meeting or 
meetings of growers and handlers in each district for the purpose of 
designating nominees for successor members and alternate members of the 
committee. At each such meeting a chairman and a secretary shall be 
selected by the growers and handlers eligible to participate therein. 
The chairman shall announce at the meeting the number of votes cast for 
each person nominated for member or alternate member and shall submit 
promptly to the committee a complete report concerning such meeting. The 
committee shall, in turn, promptly submit a copy of each such report to 
the Secretary.
    (2) Only growers, including duly authorized officers or employees of 
corporate growers, who are present at such nomination meetings may 
participate in the nomination and election of nominees for grower 
members and their alternates. Each grower shall be entitled to cast only 
one vote for each nominee to be elected in the district in which he 
produces prunes. No grower shall participate in the election of nominees 
in more than one district in any one fiscal year. If a person is both a 
grower and a handler of prunes, such person may vote either as a grower 
or as a handler but not as both.
    (3) Only handlers, including duly authorized officers or employees 
of handlers, who are present at such nomination meetings, may 
participate in the nomination and election of nominees for handler 
members and their alternates: Provided, That, in the event the committee 
determines that attendance at such nomination meetings is not 
representative of handlers generally, it may, with the approval of the 
Secretary, obtain nominations for handler members and their alternates 
by mail ballot. Each handler shall be entitled to cast only one vote for 
each nominee to be elected in the district in which he handles prunes, 
which vote shall be weighted by the volume of prunes handled by such 
handler during the then current fiscal year. No handler shall 
participate in the election of nominees in more than one district in any 
one fiscal year. If a person is both a grower and a handler of prunes, 
such person

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may vote either as a grower or as a handler but not as both.