[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: 7CFR981.31]

[Page 498]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 981_ALMONDS GROWN IN CALIFORNIA--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  981.31  Membership representation.

    Membership of the Board will be determined in the following manner:
    (a) Two members and an alternate for each member shall be selected 
from nominees submitted by each of the following groups designated in 
paragraphs (a) (1) and (2) of this section, or from among other 
qualified persons belonging to such groups:
    (1) Those growers who market their almonds through cooperative 
handlers; and
    (2) Those growers who market their almonds through other than 
cooperative handlers.
    (b) Two members and an alternate for each member shall be selected 
from nominees submitted by each of the following groups designated in 
paragraphs (b) (1) and (2) of this section, or from among other 
qualified persons belonging to such groups:
    (1) Cooperative handlers; and
    (2) All handlers, other than cooperative handlers.
    (c) One member and an alternate shall be selected from nominees 
submitted by each of the following groups designated in paragraphs (c) 
(1) and (2) of this section, or from among other qualified persons 
belonging to such groups:
    (1) The group of cooperative handlers or the group of handlers other 
than cooperative handlers, whichever received for their account more 
than 50 percent of the almonds delivered by all growers as determined by 
December 31 of the then current crop year; and
    (2) Those growers whose almonds were marketed through the handler 
group identified in paragraph (c)(1) of this section.

[61 FR 32920, June 26, 1996]