2006 Ohio Revised Code - 924.51. Ohio grape industries committee created.

§ 924.51. Ohio grape industries committee created.
 

(A)  There is hereby created the Ohio grape industries committee consisting of nine members. The members shall be the director of agriculture or the director's designee, who shall chair the committee, the superintendent of liquor control or the superintendent's designee, the chief of the division of markets of the department of agriculture, the viticulture extension specialist of the Ohio agricultural research and development center, who shall be a nonvoting member, and five members who shall be appointed by the director of agriculture. 

(B)  Of the five members of the committee appointed by the director of agriculture, two shall be persons who receive the major portion of their income from the production of grapes. The term of one of these members shall begin January 1, 1982, and end December 31, 1982, and the second member's term shall begin January 1, 1982, and end December 31, 1983. Two members shall be persons who receive the major portion of their income from the production of wine from raw grape or fruit products in either raw fruit or fresh juice form. The term of one of these members shall begin January 1, 1982, and end December 31, 1982, and the second member's term shall begin January 1, 1982, and end December 31, 1983. One member shall be a person the major portion of whose income is from the production of grape products other than wine, such as juice, jams, or jellies; that member's term shall begin January 1, 1982, and end December 31, 1984. Thereafter, the terms for each appointed member of the committee shall be for three years, commencing on the first day of January and ending on the thirty-first day of December. No appointed member shall serve more than two consecutive terms. The director may remove any appointed member for cause. 

(C)  Members shall be appointed to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation, or removal in the same manner prescribed for regular appointment to the committee. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the term. Any member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of that member's term until that member's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. 

(D)  All members of the committee are entitled to their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as members, payable from moneys received from the Ohio grape industries fund created under section 924.54 of the Revised Code. 

(E)  A majority of the committee constitutes a quorum. 
 

HISTORY: 139 v H 694 (Eff 11-15-81); 141 v H 201 (Eff 7-1-85); 146 v H 117 (Eff 9-29-95); 148 v H 283. Eff 9-29-99; 150 v H 306, § 1, eff. 7-23-04.
 

The effective date is set by section 162 of HB 283. 

The provisions of § 4 of H.B. 516 (150 v  - ) read in part as follows: 

SECTION 4. The following agencies shall be retained pursuant to division (D) of section 101.83 of the Revised Code and shall expire on December 31, 2010: 
  
            AGENCY                     REVISED CODE OR
                                      
UNCODIFIED
SECTION
                                                                             
Ohio Grape Industries
Committee                                        924.51
                                                                             


 

Effect of Amendments

150 v H 306, effective July 23, 2004, substituted "superintendent" for "director" twice in (A).