2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 11 - AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND OTHER ANIMALS
CHAPTER 40 - MARKETING OF WYOMING LEAN BEEF
11-40-102. Creation of committee; composition; administrative support; compensation; officers; conflict of interest.

(a) There is created the Wyoming lean beef committee. The initial membership of the committee shall consist of eleven (11) members of whom five (5) shall be members of the faculty of the University of Wyoming, one (1) shall be a person with professional training and experience related to human health and diet, designated by the president of the University of Wyoming, five (5) shall be appointed by the governor of whom three (3) shall be producers of beef cattle, one (1) shall be a person with training and experience in finance, one (1) shall be a person with training and experience in marketing and one (1) shall be the director of the department of agriculture or his designee serving ex officio. The members appointed by the governor shall serve three (3) year terms. The members designated by the president of the university shall serve at his pleasure.

(b) Administrative support for the committee shall be provided by and budgeted for by the University of Wyoming and thereafter it shall be the responsibility of the department of agriculture.

(c) State employees serving on the committee shall receive their normal compensation from their agency. Other members of the committee shall receive no compensation until the calendar year commencing after the calendar year in which the state first receives one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) in royalty for the use of the Wyoming lean beef trademark at which time they shall begin receiving mileage and per diem at the same rate as state legislators.

(d) Every person or organization who pays royalty for more than five hundred (500) head of cattle for the use of the Wyoming lean beef trademark or trade name shall be entitled to designate one (1) nonvoting member of the Wyoming lean beef committee. This right shall be extended for the balance of the year in which necessary royalty is first paid and for the year following any year in which the necessary royalty is paid. Committee members designated under this subsection shall receive no compensation from the state for their services.

(e) The committee shall annually select from among its members a chairman and other officers deemed necessary.

(f) If any member of the committee has applied for or received a license to market Wyoming lean beef or has a financial interest in any organization which has applied for or received a license to market Wyoming lean beef he shall disclose that interest at this first appropriate time during an open meeting of the committee and shall not vote on the issuance of that license, on the issuance of any license for a geographically exclusive area for which he or his organization is also seeking a geographically exclusive license, or any other matter uniquely affecting his license.