[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: 7CFR927.52]

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                          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. 927.52  Prerequisites to Control Committee recommendations.

    (a) Decisions of the Control Committee with respect to any 
recommendations to the Secretary pursuant to the establishment or 
modification of a supplemental rate of assessment for an individual 
variety of pears shall be made by affirmative vote of not less than 75 
percent of the applicable total number of votes, computed in the manner 
hereinafter described in this section, of all committee members. 
Decisions of the Control Committee pursuant to the provisions of Sec. 
927.50 shall be made by an affirmative vote of not less than 80 percent 
of the applicable total number of votes, computed in the manner 
hereinafter prescribed in this section, of all committee members.
    (b) With respect to a particular variety of pears, the applicable 
total number of votes shall be the aggregate of the votes allotted to 
the members of the committee in accordance with the following: Each 
member shall have one

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vote as an individual and, in addition, shall have an equal share of the 
vote of the district represented by such member; and such district vote 
shall be computed by the Control Committee as soon as practical after 
the beginning of each fiscal period on either--
    (1) The basis of one vote for each 25,000 boxes (except 2,500 boxes 
for Forelle and Seckel varieties) of the average quantity of such 
variety produced in the particular district and shipped therefrom during 
the immediately preceding three fiscal periods; or
    (2) Such other basis as the Control Committee may recommend and the 
Secretary may approve.

The votes so allotted to a member of the committees may be cast by such 
member on each recommendation relative to the variety of pears on which 
such votes were computed.

[51 FR 30627, Aug. 28, 1986, as amended at 61 FR 17555, Apr. 22, 1996]