Sec. 41.058. POWERS AND DUTIES. (a) The board may employ necessary personnel, fix the amount and manner of their compensation, and incur other expenses that are necessary and proper to enable the board to effectively carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(b) The board may adopt rules consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
(c) The board shall keep minutes of its meetings and other books and records that clearly reflect all acts and transactions of the board. The board shall open its records to examination by any participating producer during regular business hours.
(d) The board shall set the rate of the assessment. The rate may not exceed the maximum established in the election authorizing the assessment or a subsequent election establishing a maximum rate.
(e) The board may act separately or in cooperation with any person in developing, carrying out, and participating in programs of research, disease and insect control, predator control, education, indemnification, and promotion designed to encourage the production, marketing, and use of the commodity on which the assessment is levied.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1087, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 991 (H.B. 1840), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2011.
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