[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 7CFR989.36]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 989_RAISINS PRODUCED FROM GRAPES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table 
of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 989.36  Duties.

    The committee shall have, among others, the following duties:
    (a) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any producer, 
packer, dehydrator, processor or cooperative bargaining association;
    (b) To investigate compliance and to use means available to it to 
prevent violations of this part;
    (c) 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;
    (d) To investigate and assemble data on the production, handling and 
market conditions with respect to raisins;
    (e) To submit to the Secretary such available information with 
respect to raisins and grapes as he may request, and such other 
information as the committee may deem desirable and pertinent;
    (f) 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;
    (g) 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;
    (h) To cause the books of the committee to be audited by certified 
public accountants at least once each year, or at such other times as 
the committee may deem necessary or as the Secretary may request, and 
the report of each such audit shall show, among other things, the 
receipts and expenditures of funds, and at least two copies of each such 
audit shall be submitted to the Secretary;
    (i) To prepare quarterly 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 producers, 
handlers and dehydrators;
    (j) To give reasonable advance notice of the times, places, and 
purposes of its meetings by mail or other appropriate means to each 
member and alternate member and such notice shall be given as widespread 
publicity as is practicable;
    (k) To conduct meetings for the purpose of making nominations for 
membership on the committee and the certifying of nominations made for 
such purposes to the Secretary;
    (l) To establish, with the approval of the Secretary, such rules and 
procedures relative to administration of this subpart as may be 
consistent with the provisions contained in this subpart and as may be 
necessary to accomplish the purposes of the act and the efficient 
administration of this subpart.

[41 FR 32412, Aug. 3, 1976, as amended at 48 FR 32975, July 20, 1983]