[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: 7CFR927.32] [Page 209] TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PART 927_WINTER PEARS GROWN IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON--Table of Contents Subpart_Order Regulating Handling Sec. 927.32 Duties of Control Committee. The duties of the Control Committee shall be as follows: (a) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any grower or handler; (b) To keep minutes, books, and records which will reflect clearly all of the acts and transactions of the Control Committee, which minutes, books, and records shall be subject at any time to examination by the Secretary or by such person as may be designated by the Secretary; (c) To investigate, from time to time, and to assemble data on the growing, harvesting, shipping, and marketing conditions relative to pears, and to furnish to the Secretary such available information as may be requested; (d) To perform such duties as may be assigned to it from time to time by the Secretary in connection with the administration of section 32 of the act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes, Public Act No. 320, 74th Congress, approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 774), as amended; (e) To cause the books of the Control Committee to be audited by one or more competent accountants at the end of each fiscal year and at such other times as the Control Committee may deem necessary or as the Secretary may request, and to file with the Secretary copies of any and all audit reports made; (f) To appoint such employees as it may deem necessary, and to determine the salaries and define the duties of such employees; (g) To give the Secretary, or the designated agent of the Secretary, the same notice of meetings of the Control Committee as is given to the members of the Control Committee; (h) To select a chairman of the Control Committee and, from time to time, such other officers as it may deem advisable; and (i) To submit to the Secretary each fiscal period a budget of its expenses during that fiscal year. [15 FR 6071, Sept. 9, 1950. Redesignated at 26 FR 12751, Dec. 30, 1961, and as amended at 27 FR 93, Jan. 5, 1962]