[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 8]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR932.29]

[Page 295-296]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 932_OLIVES GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  932.29  Nominations.

    (a) Producer members. (1) Nominations for producer members of the 
committee, and their respective alternates, may be conducted according 
to the following procedures, or other procedures recommended by the 
committee and approved by the Secretary:
    (i) Meetings shall be held in each producer district for the purpose 
of selecting candidates for the member and alternate member nominations;
    (ii) Those candidates selected at the producer meetings shall be 
nominated by mail balloting of producers in that district;
    (iii) The committee shall adopt, with approval of the Secretary, 
appropriate procedures to be observed for conducting producer 
nominations by mail: Provided, That the names of nominees shall be 
submitted to the Secretary prior to April 16 of the year in which 
nominations are made.
    (2) Only producers, including duly authorized officers or employees 
of producers, shall participate in the nomination of producer members 
and alternate members. Each producer shall be entitled to cast only one 
vote for each nominee to be selected in the district in which the 
producer produces olives. No producer shall participate in the selection 
of nominees in more than one district. If a producer produces olives in 
more than one district, such producer shall select the district in which 
such producer will so participate and notify the committee of such 
choice.
    (b) Handler members. (1) At a meeting or meetings called by the 
committee, the cooperative handlers shall nominate a qualified person 
for each member position and a qualified person for each alternate 
member position allocated to cooperative handlers as provided in Sec.  
932.25.
    (2) At a meeting or meetings called by the committee, the 
independent handlers shall nominate a qualified person for each member 
position and a qualified person for each alternate member position 
allocated to independent handlers as provided in Sec.  932.25.

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    (3) Each handler shall be entitled to cast only one vote for each 
nominee for cooperative handler member or alternate member or 
independent handler member or alternate member, as the case may be, 
which vote shall be weighed by the tonnages of olives handled by such 
handler during the crop year in which nominations are made and in the 
previous crop year.
    (c) Public member. Nominations for the public member and alternate 
public member of the committee shall be submitted to the Secretary prior 
to April 16 of the year in which nominations are made. The committee 
shall prescribe procedures for the selection and voting for each 
candidate.

[33 FR 11266, Aug. 8, 1968, as amended at 47 FR 32907, July 30, 1982]