[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 7CFR987.24]

[Page 610]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 987_DOMESTIC DATES PRODUCED OR PACKED IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, 
CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 987.24  Nomination and selection.

    (a) Nomination for members and alternate members of the Committee 
shall be made not later than June 15 of every other year.
    (b) Opportunity shall be provided producers and handlers to nominate 
individuals to serve on the Committee by establishing a day for polling 
and also for casting absentee ballots. Persons will only be able to vote 
in nominations for the group in which they would be qualified to serve 
on the Committee, and shall nominate the applicable number of 
individuals for the positions prescribed pursuant to Sec. 987.21. Each 
producer, regardless of the number and locations of his date gardens, 
voting in the nominations for producer members and producer alternate 
members, shall be entitled to one vote for each member and alternate 
member position to be filled. The individual receiving the highest 
number of votes for a position shall be the nominee. Each person voting 
in the nominations for producer-handler members and producer-handler 
alternate members, shall be given the opportunity to vote for one member 
and one alternate member position. His ballot shall be weighted by the 
pounds of dates he had certified as marketable dates, from the beginning 
of the then current crop year through April which he produced in his own 
gardens or acquired from other producers. The individual receiving the 
highest weighted vote for a producer-handler position shall be the 
nominee. The Committee, with the approval of the Secretary, may issue 
rules and regulations on the manner in which nominees for a position may 
be obtained, polling, balloting, absentee ballots, and the weighting of 
votes for producer-handler positions when the Committee is restructured 
during a term of office.

[43 FR 4251, Feb. 1, 1978]