[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: 7CFR932.35]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 932_OLIVES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 932.35  Duties.

    The committee shall have, among others, the following duties:
    (a) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any producer or 
handler;
    (b) To keep minutes, books, and other records, which shall clearly 
reflect all of its acts and transactions, and such minutes, books, and 
other records shall be subject to examination by the Secretary at any 
time;
    (c) To make, subject to approval by the Secretary, scientific and 
other studies, and assemble data on the producing, handling, shipping, 
and marketing conditions relative to olives, which are necessary in 
connection with the performance of its official duties;
    (d) To submit to the Secretary such available information with 
respect to olives as he may request or as the committee may deem 
desirable and pertinent;
    (e) To select, from among its members, a chairman and other 
officers, and to adopt such rules and regulations for the conduct of its 
business as it may deem advisable;
    (f) To appoint or employ such other persons as it may deem 
necessary, and to determine the salaries and define the duties of each 
such person;
    (g) To submit to the Secretary, prior to the beginning of each 
fiscal year and not later than December 15, a budget of the anticipated 
expenses of the committee and the proposed assessment rate for such 
fiscal year, together with a report thereon.
    (h) To cause the books of the committee to be audited by one or more 
certified public accountants at least once each fiscal year, and at such 
other times as the committee may deem necessary or as the Secretary may 
request. The report of each such audit shall show, among other things, 
the receipts and expenditures of funds, and at

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least two copies of each such audit report shall be submitted to the 
Secretary.
    (i) To prepare monthly statements of its financial operations and 
make such statements, together with the minutes of its meetings, 
available at the office of the committee for inspection by any producer 
or handler, and to submit copies of such statements and minutes to the 
Secretary;
    (j) To give reasonable advance notice of each meeting by mail 
addressed to each member, and such notice shall be given as widespread 
publicity as practicable. The same notice of meetings given to members 
shall be given to the Secretary;
    (k) With the approval of the Secretary, to redefine the districts 
into which the area has been divided in Sec. 932.21 and to reapportion 
the membership in accordance therewith: Provided, That any such changes 
reflect insofar as practicable shifts in olive acreage within the 
districts and area, the numbers of growers in the districts, the tonnage 
produced, and are equitable as to producers; and
    (l) To investigate compliance with the provisions of this part.

[30 FR 12629, Oct. 2, 1965, as amended at 33 FR 11266, Aug. 8, 1968; 47 
FR 32907, July 30, 1982]