[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1240.38]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1240_HONEY RESEARCH, PROMOTION, AND CONSUMER INFORMATION--Table of 
 
   Subpart A_Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Order
 
Sec.  1240.38  Duties.

    The Board shall have, among other things, the following duties:
    (a) To meet and organize and to select from among its members a 
chairperson and such other officers as may be necessary; to select 
committees and subcommittees from its membership and consultants; to 
adopt such rules, regulations, and by-laws for the conduct of its 
business as it may deem advisable.
    (b) To employ such persons as it may deem necessary and to determine 
the compensation and define the duties of each; and to protect the 
handling of Board funds through fidelity bonds;
    (c) To prepare and submit to the Secretary for approval 60 days in 
advance of the beginning of a fiscal period, a budget of its anticipated 
expenses in the administration of this part including the probable costs 
of all programs and plans and to recommend a rate of assessment with 
respect thereto;
    (d) To investigate violations of this part and report the results of 
such investigations to the Secretary for appropriate action to enforce 
the provisions of this part;
    (e) To develop programs and plans and to enter into contracts or 
agreements with the approval of the Secretary for the development and 
carrying out of programs and plans of research, promotion, advertising, 
consumer education, or industry information and the payment of the costs 
thereof with funds collected pursuant to this part;

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    (f) To maintain minutes, books, and records and prepare and submit 
to the Secretary such reports from time to time as may be required for 
appropriate accounting with respect to the receipt and disbursement of 
funds entrusted to it;
    (g) To periodically prepare and make public and to make available to 
producers, handlers, producer-packers, and importers, reports of its 
activities carried out and, at least once each fiscal period, to make 
public an accounting of funds received and expended;
    (h) To cause its books to be audited by a certified public 
accountant at the end of each fiscal period and to submit a copy of each 
audit to the Secretary;
    (i) To give to the Secretary the same notice of meetings of the 
Board and subcommittees as is given to members in order that 
representatives of the Secretary may attend such meetings;
    (j) To submit to the Secretary such information pertaining to this 
subpart as the Secretary may request;
    (k) To notify honey producers, producer-packers, handlers, and 
importers of all Board meetings through press releases or other means;
    (l) To appoint and convene, from time to time, working committees 
which may include producers, handlers, producer-packers, importers, 
exporters, members of wholesale or retail outlets for honey, or other 
members of the public to assist in the development of research, 
promotion, advertising, consumer education, and industry information 
programs for honey; and
    (m) To develop and recommend such rules and regulations to the 
Secretary for approval as may be necessary for the development and 
execution of plans or activities to effectuate the declared purpose of 
the Act.

[51 FR 26148, July 21, 1986; 51 FR 29210, Aug. 15, 1986, as amended at 
56 FR 37456, Aug. 7, 1991; 66 FR 21832, May 1, 2001]

    Research, Promotion, Consumer Education, and Industry Information