[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: 7CFR955.20]

[Page 416]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 955_VIDALIA ONIONS GROWN IN GEORGIA--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  955.20  Establishment and membership.

    (a) There is hereby established a Vidalia Onion Committee, 
consisting of nine members, to administer the terms and provisions of 
this part. Eight members shall be producers, and one shall be a public 
member. At least four of the producer members shall be producer-
handlers. Each member shall have an alternate who shall have the same 
qualifications as the member.
    (b) Each member, other than the public member, shall be an 
individual who is, prior to selection and during such member's term of 
office, a resident of the production area and a grower or an officer or 
employee of a grower.
    (c) The public member shall be a resident of the production area and 
shall have no direct financial interest in the commercial production, 
financing, buying, packing or marketing of Vidalia onions, except as a 
consumer, nor shall such person be a director, officer or employee of 
any firm so engaged.