[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: 7CFR981.39]

[Page 500]
 
                          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.  981.39  Duties.

    The Board shall have, among other things, the following duties:
    (a) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any handler or 
grower;
    (b) To keep minute books and records which will clearly reflect all 
of its acts and transactions, and such minute books and records shall be 
subject to examination by the Secretary at any time;
    (c) To investigate the growing, shipping, and marketing conditions 
with respect to almonds and to assemble data in connection therewith;
    (d) To furnish to the Secretary such available information as may be 
deemed pertinent or as he may request;
    (e) To appoint such employees as it may deem necessary and to 
determine the salaries, define the duties and fix the bonds of such 
employees; and
    (f) To cause the books of the Board to be audited by one or more 
competent certified public accountants at least once for each crop year, 
and at such other times as the Board may deem necessary or as the 
Secretary may request; and the report of each such audit shall show, 
among other things, the receipt and expenditure of funds pursuant 
hereto: and to file with the Secretary three copies of all audit reports 
made.