[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: 7CFR956.22]

[Page 427]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 956_SWEET ONIONS GROWN IN THE WALLA WALLA VALLEY OF SOUTHEAST 
 
Sec.  956.22  Nominations.

    Nominations from which the Secretary may select the members of the 
committee and their respective alternates may be made in the following 
manner:
    (a) The committee shall hold or cause to be held, within the 
production area and prior to April 1 of each year or by such other date 
as may be specified by the Secretary, one or more meetings of producers 
and handlers for the purpose of designating one nominee for each of the 
member and alternate member positions which are vacant or will be vacant 
at the end of the fiscal period;
    (b) In arranging for such meetings the committee may, if it deems 
such desirable, cooperate with existing organizations and agencies;
    (c) Nominations for committee members and alternate members shall be 
provided to the Secretary, in such manner and form as the Secretary may 
prescribe, not later than 30 days prior to the end of the fiscal period 
within which the current term of office expires;
    (d) Only producers may participate in designating nominees for 
producer committee members and their alternates and only handlers may 
participate in designating nominees for handler committee members and 
their alternates;
    (e) Each person who is both a handler and a producer may vote either 
as a handler or as a producer, but not both;
    (f) Each person is entitled to cast only one vote on behalf of him 
or herself, his or her partners, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates and 
representatives, in designating nominees for committee members and 
alternates. An eligible producer's or handler's privilege of casting 
only one vote, as aforesaid, shall be construed to permit such voter to 
cast one vote for each producer member and alternate member position to 
be filled or each handler member and alternate member position to be 
filled, but not both.
    (g) Every three years, at the first meeting following selection, the 
committee shall nominate the public member and alternate for a three-
year term of office.
    (h) The committee shall prescribe such additional qualifications, 
administrative rules and procedures for selection and voting for each 
candidate as it deems necessary and as the Secretary approves.