3.2-4702 - Powers and duties of Director. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-4702. Powers and duties of Director.

In the administration of the Division, the Director, under the supervision ofthe Commissioner:

1. Shall investigate: (i) the cost of food production and marketing; (ii) themarket demand for the products of Virginia farms; (iii) the proximity ofproducers to the most profitable markets for their products; (iv) thetransportation facilities; and (v) the most advantageous methods of packing,storing, and standardizing agricultural products;

2. Shall conduct analyses to determine whether the agricultural products ofthe Commonwealth are being subjected to unfair competition from agriculturalproducts or manufactured substitutes;

3. May assist in the organization of cooperatives among producers andconsumers, for the purpose of promoting and conserving the interest ofproducers of agricultural products in the sale and distribution of suchproducts, and in the purchase of their necessary supplies;

4. May cooperate with federal officials, national, district, and statecommittees and supervisory bodies in enforcing codes and marketing agreementsadopted under the federal Agricultural Adjustment Act (7 U.S.C. § 1281 etseq.) or other similar acts of Congress;

5. May enter into agreements with federal officials, national, district, orstate committees or supervisory bodies for carrying out the provisions ofthis section or the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act or other similar actsof Congress;

6. May appoint, supervise, and dismiss as inspectors or representatives ofthe Division those employees of his office as he may deem necessary for theenforcement and carrying out the purposes of subdivisions 4 through 7; and

7. May receive from the federal department or its subdivisions, national,district or state committees or supervisory bodies, or from other sources,fees or moneys for carrying out the purposes of subdivisions 4 through 7,deposit them in the state treasury, and expend such moneys for carrying outthe purposes of these subdivisions.

(Code 1950, §§ 3-527, 3-531; 1966, c. 702, §§ 3.1-686, 3.1-690; 1993, c. 115;2008, c. 860.)