2006 Kansas Code - 74-555

      74-555.   Dairy marketing advisory board; members; terms; duties. (a) There is hereby created the dairy marketing advisory board. The board shall be within the Kansas department of agriculture.

      (b)   The members of the dairy marketing advisory board shall be appointed by the governor. The board shall consist of five members, of such, two members shall be dairy farmers; one member shall represent the milk handlers of the state; one member shall be a consumer of milk; and one member shall be the acting secretary of agriculture or the secretary's designee. The Kansas dairy association may make nominations to the governor for consideration as appointments to the dairy marketing advisory board.

      (c)   Except as provided by this subsection, members of the board shall serve for three year terms and until successors are appointed and qualified. Of the first five members appointed, two shall serve for one year, two shall serve for two years, and one shall serve for three years. The terms of members who are serving on the board on the effective date of this act shall expire on March 15, of the year in which such member's term would have expired under the provisions of this section prior to amendment by this act. Three members shall constitute a quorum. Vacancies on the board shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments are made. The board may remove any of the board members for cause after hearing. Not more than three members of the board shall be of the same political party.

      (d)   Members of the board shall receive no compensation for such members' services, but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by such members in the performance of such members' duties.

      (e)   The dairy marketing advisory board shall:

      (1)   Study and evaluate the need for establishing a statewide milk marketing order;

      (2)   make recommendations as to the implementation of milk marketing orders; and

      (3)   prepare and submit to the standing agriculture committees of the legislature a report of its findings and recommendations on or before February 1 each year.

      History:   L. 1994, ch. 174, § 1; L. 1995, ch. 81, § 1; L. 1995, ch. 241, § 7; L. 2004, ch. 101, § 126; July 1.