§4807 Selection of Delegate Body

Summary

Within 30 days after the order starts, the Secretary must ask each State to name producer candidates for the first Delegate Body. State associations can nominate producers who live in their State. More residents can be added by a written petition signed by 100 producers or 5 percent of the pork producers in the State, whichever is less. The Secretary will set and announce how and when to file petitions. After getting the nominations and by 45 days after the order starts, the Secretary must call an election in each State. To vote in those elections, a person must be a producer who lives in that State. The Secretary must announce the election at least 1 week before voting by publishing in general newspapers and pork/agriculture trade publications and by any other reasonable way chosen. The notice must say when and where to vote. Each State will nominate the number of producer members required under section 4806(b)(2)(B). The producers with the most votes in each State are nominated for appointment. After the first election, the Board will run future nominations and elections with the Secretary’s help and following the same rules. The Board will set the election timing. To vote in later elections a person must be a producer who lives in the State, must have paid all assessments under section 4809, and must not have asked for a refund under section 4813. Before any producer member’s term ends, the Board must pick a nominating committee of producers from that State. That committee will name candidates, and extra candidates may again be added by the petition process above.