Board of agriculture.

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ENROLLED ACT NO. 69, SENATE

FIFTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2007 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to the board of agriculture; modifying the board composition; extending the board membership term; increasing the compensation as provided; providing a conforming amendment; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 11
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102, 11
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104 and 11-10-115(a) are amended to read:

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102.

Composition; qualifications; appointment and removal of members; quorum.

(a)

The board shall consist of
nine (9)
thirteen (13)
members, including the governor and the dean of the University of Wyoming college of agriculture or his designated representative as ex officio nonvoting members.
Seven (7)
Eleven (11) voting
members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate and may be removed by the governor as provided in W.S. 9
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202.

(b)

One (1) member shall be appointed from each of the seven (7) appointment districts pursuant to W.S. 9
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218. Appointments in each appointment district shall be rotated among the several counties comprising the district.

(b)
(c)

Appointed members shall be appointed for a term of
four (4)
six (6)
years.

(d)

The seven (7) members appointed from the
various
appointment
districts
:

(i)

S
hall be selected to represent a cross-section of the agricultural industry
;
and

(ii)

S
hall be engaged chiefly in agricultural work
;
,
and

(iii)

N
ot more than four (4) shall be members of the same political party.

(e)

One (1) member shall be appointed from each of the four (4) board of agriculture youth leadership quadrants as follows:

(i)

The northeast quadrant shall consist of Campbell, Crook, Johnson, Niobrara, Sheridan and Weston counties;

(ii)

The northwest quadrant shall consist of Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park, Teton and Washakie counties;

(iii)

The southeast quadrant shall consist of Albany, Converse, Goshen, Laramie, Natrona and Platte counties; and

(iv)

The southwest quadrant shall consist of Carbon, Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater and Uinta counties.

(f)

The four (4) members appointed from the board of agriculture youth leadership quadrants:

(i)

Shall be selected by considering a cross
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section of the agricultural industry;

(ii)

Shall be engaged chiefly in agricultural work; and

(iii)

Shall be between eighteen (18) and thirty (30) years of age at the time of submitting the application for board membership.

(c)
(g)

A majority of the appointed members of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.

(d)
(h)

Effective July 1, 1979, appointments and terms shall be in accordance with W.S. 28
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101 through 28
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103.

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104.

Salary and expenses; oath; election of president and vice
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president.

The board members, except the governor and the dean of the University of Wyoming college of agriculture, shall be paid
ten dollars ($10.00) per day when acting in their official capacity and shall be reimbursed for traveling expenses as provided by W.S. 9
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102 for state employees
the salary, for attending and traveling to and from official board business shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day and the mileage and per diem for attending and traveling to and from official board business in the same manner and amount as state employees
. The appointed board members, within a reasonable time after their appointment, shall qualify by taking the constitutional oath of office and filing it with the secretary of state. The appointed members shall elect from their members a president and vice
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president.

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115.

State fair advisory board; membership.

(a)

There is created the state fair advisory board which shall serve as advisor to the board of agriculture on the operation of the state fair and the operation and maintenance of the state fairgrounds. The board shall consist of ten (10) members, one (1) member appointed by each of the seven (7)
appointed
members of the board of agriculture
appointed pursuant to W.S. 11
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102(b)
, one (1) member appointed by the Converse county board of commissioners, one (1) member appointed by the dean of the University of Wyoming college of agriculture from the Wyoming cooperative extension service, and one (1) member selected by the Wyoming vocational agriculture teachers association from its membership. The members shall receive no salary in the performance of their duties but shall receive mileage and per diem the same as state employees as provided by W.S. 9
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102.

Section 2.

There is appropriated from the general fund to the department of agriculture twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) for the purpose of implementing this act through June 30, 2008.

Section 3.

W.S. 11
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102(f) shall not apply to members of the board of agriculture appointed prior to the effective date of this act, but shall apply to members of the board of agriculture appointed after the effective date of this act.

Section 4.

This act is effective July 1, 2007.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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