OAR 664-015-0020
Qualifications of Commissioners
(1)
For purposes of this rule:(a)
“Producer” means a person growing or producing within this state or procuring within the state, its rivers or the offshore waters, but not the Columbia River, for commercial handling within the state, a commodity for market, or receiving a share thereof as landowner, landlord, tenant, sharecropper, boat skipper or otherwise. A producer must have paid the commission assessment on the commodity in each of the preceding three calendar years.(b)
“Handler” means any producer, processor, distributor or other person engaged in handling or marketing of or dealing in the commodity, whether as owner, agent, employee, broker or otherwise. A handler must have collected the Commission assessment, if any, each of the preceding three calendar years.(c)
“Commission” means the Oregon Clover Seed Commission.(2)
Members of the Commission will have the following qualifications, which will continue during the term of office of the member:(a)
No more than one member of the Commission will be a member of the public with an active interest in the positive economic development, production and marketing of the commodity, but who is not associated with the production or handling of clover seed;(b)
A majority of the Commission members will be producers;(c)
No more than two Commission members will be a handlers, each employed by separate entity;(d)
All Commission members who are not a handler or the public member will be producers.
Source:
Rule 664-015-0020 — Qualifications of Commissioners, https://secure.sos.state.or.us/oard/view.action?ruleNumber=664-015-0020.