§ 2-7-156.1 - Assessment Advisory Committee created; composition; eligibility of members; duties - Georgia Statutes

O.C.G.A. 2-7-156.1 (2010)
2-7-156.1. Assessment Advisory Committee created; composition; eligibility of members; duties

(a) There is created a special advisory committee to the certified cotton growers' organization to be known as the Assessment Advisory Committee. The Assessment Advisory Committee shall be composed of the following members:

(1) One member to be appointed by the Board of Directors of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation;

(2) One member to be appointed by the Georgia Cotton Commodity Commission; and

(3) One member to be appointed by the Georgia Board of Directors of Southern/Southeastern, Inc.

No person who serves as a member of the board of directors of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of Georgia, Inc., shall be eligible to serve as a member of the Assessment Advisory Committee. No person shall be appointed to serve as a member of the Assessment Advisory Committee by more than one of the organizations listed in paragraphs (1) through (3) of this subsection. No person shall be appointed or eligible to serve as a member of the Assessment Advisory Committee if such person's spouse or child has been appointed as a member of such committee.

(b) It shall be the duty of the certified cotton growers' organization and its board of directors to consult with the Assessment Advisory Committee in the formulation and adoption of any recommendation to the Commissioner relating to any change in the method of assessment from a per acre basis to a per bale basis. It shall be the further duty of the certified cotton growers' organization and its board of directors to notify the members of the Assessment Advisory Committee of all meetings at which any proposed change in such method of assessment is to be discussed or any action is to be taken thereon and to allow the members of such advisory committee to participate in such meeting, but the members of the advisory committee shall not have the right to vote as members of the board of directors of the certified cotton growers' organization. The members of the Assessment Advisory Committee shall receive no compensation or reimbursement of expenses from the state for their services as members of the advisory committee. The Assessment Advisory Committee created by this Code section shall be automatically abolished and this Code section shall be repealed on the date the Commissioner takes final action to change the method of assessments from a per acre basis to a per bale basis under the provisions of any law now or hereafter enacted authorizing such change.