[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: 7CFR987]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER IX--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
      Orders; Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 987_DOMESTIC DATES PRODUCED OR PACKED IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, 
 
                    Subpart_Order Regulating Handling
 
Sec.  987.30  Duties.

    The Committee shall have, among other things, the following duties:

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    (a) To act as intermediary between the Secretary and any producer or 
handler.
    (b) To keep minutes, books, and records which will clearly reflect 
all of its transactions and such minutes, books, and other records shall 
be subject to examination by the Secretary at any time.
    (c) To investigate the growing, handling, and marketing conditions 
with respect to dates, to assemble data in connection therewith.
    (d) To furnish to the Secretary such available information as may be 
deemed pertinent to the administration of this subpart or as he may 
request and to give to the Secretary the same notice of meetings of the 
Committee as is given to the members of the Committee.
    (e) To appoint such employees as it may deem necessary and to 
determine the salaries, define the duties and where desirable fix the 
bonds of such employees.
    (f) To cause the books of the Committee to be audited by a certified 
public accountant at least once each crop year and at such other times 
as the Committee may deem necessary or the Secretary may request. The 
report of each such audit shall show among other things the receipt and 
expenditure of funds pursuant hereto. Two copies of such audit shall be 
submitted to the Secretary.
    (g) To investigate compliance and to use means available to the 
Committee to prevent violations of this part.
    (h) To furnish the Committee viewpoints of the consumer, the 
Committee may utilize a consumer consultant. The consumer consultant 
shall have no financial interest in the date industry and shall receive 
no compensation, however, such person shall be reimbursed for necessary 
expenses attendant to those assignments that the Committee has given 
prior support and approval.

[27 FR 6818, July 19, 1962, as amended at 43 FR 4252, Feb. 1, 1978]