---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 955.20"
title: "7"
number: "955.20"
heading: "Establishment and membership."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/955.20"
---

# §955.20. Establishment and membership.

- (a) There is hereby established a Vidalia Onion Committee, consisting of nine members, to administer the terms and provisions of this part. Eight members shall be producers, and one shall be a public member. At least four of the producer members shall be producer-handlers. Each member shall have an alternate who shall have the same qualifications as the member.
- (b) Each member, other than the public member, shall be an individual who is, prior to selection and during such member's term of office, a resident of the production area and a grower or an officer or employee of a grower.
- (c) The public member shall be a resident of the production area and shall have no direct financial interest in the commercial production, financing, buying, packing or marketing of Vidalia onions, except as a consumer, nor shall such person be a director, officer or employee of any firm so engaged.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 601-674.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 717, Jan. 9, 1990, unless otherwise noted.