Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

(1) In order to maintain close contact
between the department and the seed industry, there is hereby created a state
seed laboratory advisory board which shall consist of eight (8) official
members and eight (8) ex officio alternates appointed by the director of the
department of agriculture from a list provided by the Idaho seed council. The
Idaho seed council will nominate a member and an alternate for each vacancy on
the advisory board to represent the following seed commodities:
(a) Cereal grains
(b) Grasses - turf
(c) Grasses - forage
(d) Small seeded legumes
(e) Corn and small seeded vegetables
(f) Garden beans
(g) Field beans
(h) Oil crops.
The executive secretary of the Idaho crop improvement association shall serve
as a permanent ninth official member of the board. The president of the Idaho
seed analysts association, or his representative, shall serve as a permanent
tenth official member of the board. Additionally, without the need for any
nominations, the director shall appoint one (1) grower member who shall serve
as the eleventh official member of the board and serve a three (3) year term.
(2) The members first appointed shall determine by lot the length of
their terms: Four (4) to serve for three (3) years, and four (4) to serve for
two (2) years, each term beginning July 1, 1989. A member and his alternate
shall serve the same length of term. Vacancies in office shall be filled by an
alternate for the unexpired term.
(3) Official members or an alternate present in the absence of his
respective representative will have the right to vote. A member and his
respective alternate are not to work for the same employer.
(4) Members or alternates of the board shall be compensated as provided
in section 59-509(a), Idaho Code.
(5) The functions of the board shall be to advise and counsel with the
department in the administration of the provisions of sections 22-414 through
22-436, Idaho Code.
(6) The board shall meet at the call of the chairman or the director of
the Idaho department of agriculture or his designee. A majority of the members
present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum, and a majority vote of the
quorum at any meeting shall constitute an official act of the board.
(7) At the first meeting after July 1, in each year, the board shall
select a chairman. The director of the Idaho department of agriculture and
the bureau chief of the Idaho state seed laboratory in the department of
agriculture or their representatives, shall be ex officio members without the
right to vote.

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