[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: 7CFR993.24]

[Page 700-701]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 993_DRIED PRUNES PRODUCED IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec. 993.24  Establishment and membership.

    A Prune Marketing Committee (herein referred to as the 
``Committee''), consisting of 22 members with an alternate member for 
each such member, is hereby established to administer the terms and 
provisions of this part, of whom with their respective alternates, 14 
shall represent producers, 7 shall represent handlers, and 1 shall 
represent the public. Committee membership shall be allocated in 
accordance with the following grouping with the alternate positions 
identically allocated:
    (a) Three handler members to represent handlers who are cooperative 
marketing associations of producers (referred to in this part as 
``cooperative handlers'');
    (b) Three handler members to represent handlers other than 
cooperative handlers (referred to in this part as ``independent 
handlers'');
    (c) One handler member to represent handlers who are cooperative 
handlers or independent handlers, whichever of such handlers handled as 
first handlers more than 50 percent of the prunes handled by all 
handlers during the crop year preceding the year in which nominations 
are made;
    (d) Fourteen producer members to be selected from and to represent 
producers who are members of cooperative marketing associations 
(referred to in this part as ``cooperative producers'') and producers 
other than ``cooperative producers'' (referred to in this part as 
``independent producers''); the number of the producer members for the 
cooperative producer group or the independent producer group, as the 
case may be, shall be in the same proportion, as near as practicable, to 
the total of 14, as the tonnage of prunes

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handled by the respective group of cooperative handlers or independent 
handlers as first handlers during the crop year preceding the year in 
which nominations are made is to the total tonnage of prunes handled by 
all handlers as first handlers.
    (e) The public member and alternate shall have no financial interest 
in the prune industry.

[26 FR 476, Jan. 19, 1961, as amended at 46 FR 61636, Dec. 18, 1981]