[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: 7CFR987.31]

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                          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. 987.31  Procedure.

    (a) A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum.
    (b) The Committee shall, from among its members, select a chairman 
and such other officers and adopt such rules for the conduct of its 
business as it may deem advisable.
    (c) For any decision of the Committee to be valid, a concurring vote 
of at least five members is required, except as follows:
    (1) In matters relating to restructuring Committee composition 
pursuant to Sec. 987.21, concurrence by at least eight members is 
required;
    (2) In matters relating to establishment, modification and 
application of free and restricted percentages pursuant to Sec. Sec. 
987.44 and 987.46, concurrence by at least seven members is required; 
and
    (3) In matters relating to recommendation of any program of paid 
advertising or major program of market promotion pursuant to Sec. 
987.33, concurrence by at least six members is required.
    (d) At all assembled meetings each vote shall be cast in person.
    (e) The Committee may vote upon any proposition by mail, or 
telephone when confirmed in writing within 2 weeks, or telegram, upon 
due notice and full and identical explanation to all members, including 
alternates acting as members, but any such action shall not be 
considered valid unless unanimously approved.
    (f) If the total number of members of the Committee is changed 
pursuant to Sec. 987.21, the minimum voting requirements shall be in 
the same ratio to the revised total number of members, as nearly as 
practicable, as the minimum voting requirements prescribed in paragraph 
(c) of this section are to nine.

[36 FR 15038, Aug. 12, 1971, as amended at 43 FR 4252, Feb. 1, 1978]

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