[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: 7CFR928.31]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 928_PAPAYAS GROWN IN HAWAII--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handing
 
Sec. 928.31  Duties.

    The committee shall have, among others, the following duties:
    (a) To select a chairman and such other officers as may be 
necessary, and to define the duties of such officers; and to select sub-
committees, advisory committees or other committees and define the 
duties of each;
    (b) To appoint such employees, agents, and representatives as it may 
deem necessary, and to determine the compensation and to define the 
duties and procedures of each;
    (c) To submit to the Secretary prior to each fiscal year a budget 
for such fiscal year, including a report in explanation of the items 
appearing therein and a recommendation as to the rate of assessment for 
such fiscal year;
    (d) To keep minutes, books, and records which will reflect all of 
the acts and transactions of the committee and which shall be subject to 
examination by the Secretary;
    (e) To prepare a statement of the financial operations of the 
committee and to make copies of each such statement available to growers 
and handlers for examination at the office of the committee;
    (f) To require adequate fidelity bonds for all persons handling 
funds;
    (g) To cause its books to be audited by a competent public 
accountant at least once each fiscal year, and at such other times as 
the Secretary may request:
    (h) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any grower or 
handler;
    (i) To provide an adequate system for estimating the total season 
crop of papayas and to make such determinations, as it may deem 
necessary, or as may be prescribed by the Secretary, in connection with 
the administration of this part;
    (j) To investigate the growing, handling, and marketing conditions 
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respect to papayas, and to assemble data in connection therewith;
    (k) To engage in such research relating to the determination of 
maturity and grade standards for papayas as may be approved by the 
Secretary;
    (l) To submit to the Secretary such available information, including 
verified reports, as he may request;
    (m) To notify producers and handlers of meetings of the committee to 
consider recommendations for regulation;
    (n) To investigate compliance with the provisions of this part; and
    (o) With the approval of the Secretary, to redefine the districts 
into which the production area is divided, to reapportion the grower 
member representation on the committee among the districts, to increase 
or decrease the number of grower and handler members and alternates on 
the committee, and to change the composition of the committee by 
changing the ratio between grower and handler members including their 
alternates. Any such changes shall reflect, insofar as practicable, 
structural changes within the papaya industry and shifts in papaya 
production among the districts within the production area.

[36 FR 8925, May 15, 1971, as amended at 53 FR 864, Jan. 14, 1988; 53 FR 
44551, Nov. 3, 1988]