[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: 7CFR979.22]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 979_MELONS GROWN IN SOUTH TEXAS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 979.22  Establishment and membership.

    (a) There is hereby established a South Texas Melon Committee, 
consisting of ten (10) members, to administer the terms and provisions 
of this part. Six members shall be growers, three members shall be 
handlers, and one shall be a public member. Each shall have an alternate 
who shall have the same qualifications as the member.
    (b) Each member, other than the public member, shall be an 
individual who is, prior to his selection and during his term of office 
(1) a resident of the production area, and (2) a grower or handler, or 
an officer or employee of a grower or handler, or of growers' 
cooperative marketing organization.
    (c) Five members shall be growers from District No. 1 and one member 
shall be a grower from District No. 2. No person, if he handles melons, 
shall be eligible for selection as a grower member on the committee 
unless all of the melons handled by him during the fiscal period 
immediately preceding his proposed selection to the committee were his 
own production or unless such person is an officer or employee of a 
growers' cooperative marketing association. Three members shall be 
handlers from District No. 1.
    (d) The public member and alternate shall be a resident of the 
production area and be neither a grower nor a handler and shall have no 
direct financial interest in the commercial production, financing, 
buying, packing or marketing of melons, except as a consumer, nor shall 
such person be a director, officer or employee of any firm so engaged.

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