[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: 7CFR958.28]

[Page 446]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 958_ONIONS GROWN IN CERTAIN DESIGNATED COUNTIES IN IDAHO, AND 
MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 958.28  Nominations.

    Nominations from which the Secretary may select the members of the 
Idaho-Eastern Oregon Onion Committee and their respective alternates may 
be made in the following manner:
    (a) The committee shall hold or cause to be held prior to April 1 of 
each year, after the effective date of this subpart, one or more 
meetings of producers and of handlers in each of the districts, or 
portions of the production area, in which the then current terms of 
office will expire the following May 31;
    (b) In arranging for such meetings the committee may, if it deems 
desirable, cooperate with existing organizations and agencies and may 
combine its meetings with others;
    (c) Nominations for committee members and alternate members shall be 
supplied to the Secretary, in such manner and form as he may prescribe, 
not later than 30 days prior to the end of each fiscal period;
    (d) Only producers may participate in designating nominees for 
producer committee members and their alternates and only handlers may 
participate in designating nominees for handler committee members and 
their alternates;
    (e) Each person who is both a handler and a producer may vote either 
as a handler or as a producer and may select the group in which he will 
vote;
    (f) Regardless of the number of districts in which a person produces 
or handles onions, each such person is entitled to cast only one vote on 
behalf of himself, his partners, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates and 
representatives, in designating nominees for committee members and 
alternates. In the event a person is a producer engaged in producing 
onions in more than one district, such person shall select the district 
within which he may participate as aforesaid in designating nominees. 
Similarly, a person who is a handler both in Malheur County, Oregon, and 
in the Idaho portion of the production area, may select either Malheur 
County or the Idaho portion of the production area in which to cast his 
vote for the applicable committee handler member and alternate. Each 
such handler shall also be entitled to cast his vote for the committee 
member and alternate to represent the production area-at-large. An 
eligible voter's privilege of casting only one vote, as aforesaid, shall 
be construed to permit such voter to cast one vote for each member and 
alternate position to be filled in the respective district or portion of 
the production area, as the case may be, in which he elects to vote; and
    (g) The producer and handler members of the committee shall nominate 
the public member and alternate. The committee shall prescribe such 
additional qualifications, administrative rules and procedures for 
selection and voting for each candidate as it deems necessary and as the 
Secretary approves.

[22 FR 26, Jan. 3, 1957. Redesignated at 26 FR 12751, Dec. 30, 1961, and 
amended at 47 FR 8000, Feb. 24, 1982]