2005 Idaho Code - 25-1102 — BOARD CREATED -- MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION

                                  TITLE  25
                                   ANIMALS
                                  CHAPTER 11
                              STATE BRAND BOARD
    25-1102.  BOARD CREATED -- MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION. There shall be in
the Idaho state police a state brand board and such board is hereby created.
The state brand board shall consist of five (5) members, three (3) of whom
shall be experienced in, and while serving as a member of such board,
continuously and principally, engaged in, the feeding or the production of
beef cattle in Idaho and no two (2) of whom shall be from the same county; one
(1) of whom shall be experienced in, and while serving as a member of such
board, continuously and principally, engaged in, the operation of a licensed
public livestock auction market, and one (1) of whom shall be experienced in,
and while serving as a member of such board, continuously and principally,
engaged as a dairy milk producer. The term of office of each member of said
board shall be five (5) years, excepting that of the members of said board
first appointed, one (1) shall be appointed to hold office until the first
Monday in January, 1975, one (1) until the first Monday of January, 1976, and
one (1) until the first Monday of January, 1977, one (1) until the first
Monday of January, 1978, and one (1) until the first Monday of January, 1979.
Vacancies occurring on the board other than by expiration of the term, shall
be filled for the unexpired term only. Each of such members of the board,
before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe to the
constitutional oath of office, and be bonded to the state of Idaho in the
time, form and manner provided by chapter 8, title 59, Idaho Code. The members
of the board shall be compensated as provided by section 59-509(h), Idaho
Code. Said compensation shall be paid in the same manner as other expenses of
the state brand board are paid. Each member of said board shall be a qualified
elector of the county from which he is chosen and must reside during his term
of office, within the state of Idaho. Said board must hold a meeting quarterly
and at any other times if so requested by any member of the board. The
governor shall appoint the members of such board, both initially and
thereafter as vacancies occur therein, from the recommendations of the
executive committee or board of directors of the Idaho cattle association,
Idaho dairymen's association and licensed public livestock auction markets.
Each such recommendation shall be of at least two (2) persons for each
appointment to be made by the governor. If no such recommendation is made
within thirty (30) days after the occurrence of any vacancy in the membership
of such board, then the appointment may be made without such recommendation.
If the person or persons recommended are not deemed eligible or fit by the
governor, then he shall request two (2) additional names from the respective
industry segment. A member of such board shall be ineligible to hold any other
state or federal office providing full-time employment, or any county or
elective office. After due notice and public hearing, the governor may remove
any member for cause.
    The board shall elect one (1) of its members chairman, and there shall be
a state brand inspector who shall serve as secretary of such board. The board
is empowered to make rules for governing itself, and such rules as it may deem
necessary for the enforcement of all of the duties of the state brand
inspector, the laws of the state of Idaho providing registration and use of
stock growers' brands, and the laws of the state of Idaho providing inspection
and other requirements for the transportation of livestock, and all laws of
the state enacted for the identification, inspection and transportation of
livestock, and all laws of the state designed to prevent theft and illegal
butchering of livestock.