(1) The commission shall consist of five (5) members appointed by the governor following nomination. Three (3) members shall be growers, with one (1) grower member representing district no. 1, one (1) grower member representing district no. 2, and one (1) grower member being a grower member at large, and two (2) members shall be dealers.
(2)  Members shall serve for a term of three (3) years. On and after the effective date of this act, terms that are held by the commission members immediately prior to the effective date of this act, hereinafter referred to as current commissioners, shall expire and be filled on the following schedule:
District no. 1 shall be held by the current grower commissioner for district no. 1, whose term shall expire on July 1, 2016;
District no. 2 shall be held by the current grower commissioner for district no. 2, whose term shall expire on July 1, 2017;
The term of the grower member at large shall expire on July 1, 2018, and shall be held by the current grower commissioner for district no. 3, as it existed prior to the effective date of this act;
The term of one (1) dealer member at large shall be held by the current dealer member at large whose term shall expire on July 1, 2016; and
The term of the second dealer member at large shall be held by the current dealer member at large whose term shall expire on July 1, 2018.
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Terms Used In Idaho Code 22-3604

  • Commission: means the Idaho apple commission. See Idaho Code 22-3603
  • Dealer: means any person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative or other business units and devices who first handles, packs, ships, buys or sells apples, or who acts as sales or purchasing agent, broker or factor of apples. See Idaho Code 22-3603
  • Grower: means any landowner personally engaged in growing apples, a tenant personally engaged in growing apples, or both the owner and the tenant jointly, and includes a person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative organization, trust, sharecropper, or any and all other business units, devices and arrangements, that grow apples. See Idaho Code 22-3603
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
(3)  Members of the commission may not serve more than two (2) consecutive terms. Upon serving two (2) consecutive terms and the lapse of one (1) full term, such member may again be nominated and appointed to the commission.
(4)  Meetings shall be held for the selection of member nominees prior to expiration of a member’s term and shall be held at the discretion of the commission. In seeking nominations for a grower member, the commission shall conduct meetings at such times and places as determined by the commission during which time growers shall nominate two (2) qualified growers for each expiring member term. In seeking nominations for a dealer member, the commission shall conduct meetings at such times and places as determined by the commission, during which time dealers shall nominate two (2) qualified dealers at large for each expiring member term. Notice of the meetings for the nominations of growers and dealers shall be by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in any county in which a meeting is to be held and shall be published in two (2) issues of such newspaper, the first approximately thirty (30) days and the second approximately ten (10) days before said meeting. The notice shall state the purpose, time and place of said meeting.
(5)  In the event there are vacancies in the commission through death, resignation or removal, it shall be the duty of the growers and dealers as provided in this section to submit to the governor at least two (2) qualified names for each grower vacancy and two (2) qualified names for each dealer vacancy. The governor shall make the appointment to fill the vacancy.