Terms Used In Idaho Code 22-4704

  • Commission: means the Idaho oilseed commission. See Idaho Code 22-4703
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Grower: means any landowner, or tenant of the landowner, personally engaged in growing oilseed, or both the owner and tenant jointly, and includes a person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative, trust, estate, sharecropper, or any and all other business units, devices and arrangements. See Idaho Code 22-4703
  • Oilseed: means seeds produced for use as oil, meal, planting seed, condiment, or other industrial or chemurgic uses. See Idaho Code 22-4703
  • 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
There is hereby created and established in the department of self-governing agencies a commission which shall be exclusively known and referred to as the Idaho oilseed commission on and after the effective date of this act. The commission shall be composed of three (3) members appointed by the governor at the recommendation of a representative group of oilseed growers in the state of Idaho. Commission members appointed by the governor shall hold office for a term of three (3) years. The commissioners may appoint a representative from the supporting oilseed industry, who is not a grower, to serve as an ex officio member of the commission without voting privileges. The dean of the college of agriculture, university of Idaho, or his duly authorized representative, and the director of the department of agriculture shall also be ex officio members of the commission without voting privileges.