OAR 604-030-0020: Qualifications of Commissioners

(1) For purposes of this rule: (a) A "producer" is 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) A "handler" is 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. (2) Members of the Oregon Fine Fescue Commission will have the following qualifications, which will continue during the term of office of the member: (a) One member of the commission will be a member of the public with an active interest in the positive economic development, production and/or marketing of the commodity, but who is not associated with the production or handling of Chewings Fescue seed, Creeping Red Fescue seed or Highland Bentgrass seed; (b) A majority of the members will be producers; (c) At least one member will be a handler; (d) Seven members who are not a handler or the public member will be producers; no less than six members will be producers of Chewings Fescue seed or Creeping Red Fescue seed; one member will be a producer of Highland Bentgrass seed. (3) All members of the Oregon Fine Fescue Commission will serve from the state at large, except that two members of the Commission shall be from Union County, and all members must reside within the State of Oregon.