US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  22
                         AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
                                  CHAPTER 31
                        HOPS -- PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY
    22-3105.  POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSION. The powers and duties of the
commission shall include the following:
    1.  To administer and enforce this act.
    2.  To contract in the name of the commission and be contracted with.
    3.  To employ and at pleasure discharge a secretary, advertising manager,
advertising agents, agents, research director, research staff, attorneys and
such clerical and other help as it deems necessary and to control their powers
and duties and to fix their compensation.
    4.  To keep books, records and accounts of all its dealings, which books,
records and accounts of all its dealings shall be open to inspection by the
state controller at all times.
    5.  To purchase or authorize the purchase of all office equipment and
supplies and incur all other reasonable and necessary expenses and obligations
in connection with and required for the proper carrying out of the provisions
of this act.
    6.  To become a member of and purchase membership in trade organizations
and to subscribe to and purchase trade bulletins, journals, and other trade
publications.
    7.  To plan and conduct an advertising, publicity and sales promotion
campaign to increase the sales of hops and to make such advertising, publicity
and sales promotion contracts and other agreements as may be necessary.
    8.  To plan and conduct a research program on marketing of and markets for
hops and a research program to improve the quality of hops, to develop and
improve control measures for disease and pests which attack hops and to
improve hop growing culture and to disseminate such information among the
growers and to make such research contracts and other agreements as may be
necessary.
    9.  To define and designate the character of the brands, labels, stencils
or other distinctive marks under which hops may be marketed and to patent,
copyright or otherwise protect such identifying distinctive mark, all for the
purposes of securing the greatest returns to the grower and of meeting
requirements of the advertising campaign of the commission and of protecting
the identity of the hops as Idaho hops as near to the final consumer as
possible.
    10.  To prevent any substitution of other hops for Idaho hops and to
prevent the misrepresentation or the misbranding of Idaho hops at any and all
times and at any and all points.
    11.  To establish and maintain the executive office of the commission at
any place within the state of Idaho which designated place may be changed at
the discretion of the commission.
    12.  To adopt and from time to time alter, rescind, modify or amend all
proper and necessary rules, regulations, and orders for the exercise of its
powers and the performance of its duties under this act.
    13.  To cooperate with the director of the department of agriculture in
and to pay all or any portion of the costs incurred in the creation,
administration and enforcement of any quarantine and inspection affecting hops
and hop plants established pursuant to the laws of the state of Idaho.
    14.  To plan and conduct a research program for improving old varieties
and developing new varieties of hops; to propagate any such improved old
varieties or such new varieties of hops; to patent any such improved old
varieties or such new varieties of hops and to license the propagation,
growing and sale thereof; to adopt such trade names or trademarks in relation
to any such improved old varieties or such new varieties of hops and to
patent, copyright, or otherwise protect such names; to buy, contract to buy,
receive by gift or otherwise acquire, hold, or retain legal title to such
improved old varieties or such new varieties of hops including the root stock
thereof and the hops produced therefrom; to sell, lease, consign, trade,
exchange, or give away or otherwise dispose of any such improved old varieties
or such new varieties of hops including the root stock thereof and the hops
produced therefrom; to advertise and promote the commercial use of such
improved old varieties and new varieties of hops; and to impose, by contract
or regulation or otherwise, such conditions and restrictions as may be
determined by the commission pertaining to such improved old varieties and
such new varieties of hops including the root stock thereof including but not
limited to conditions and restrictions limiting, restricting, prohibiting or
affecting the use, distribution, acreage, production, geographical areas of
planting, cultural practices used in propagation, leasing, assigning, selling,
sale price, and the use of trade names and trademarks relating to such
improved old varieties or such new varieties of hops including the root stock
thereof and the increase thereof and the use of trade names and trademarks to
designate hops produced from any such old varieties or such new varieties of
hops.
    15.  To prosecute in the name of the state of Idaho any suit or action for
collection of the assessment provided for in this chapter.