A. The Apple Board may:
1. Administer, manage and make expenditures from the Apple Fund;
2. Plan and conduct campaigns of research, education, publicity, and industry development for the purpose of enhancing the viability and profitability of the Virginia apple industry;
3. Make contracts to accomplish the purposes of this chapter;
4. Cooperate with other state, regional, national, and international organizations in research concerning education on promotion of apples, and expend moneys of the Apple Fund for such purposes;
5. Establish committees of the Apple Board to address horticultural and such other issues as the Apple Board deems pertinent to the Virginia apple industry; and
6. Do whatever else may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
B. The chairman shall make a report at least annually, furnishing Apple Board members with a statement of total receipts and disbursements of the Apple Board for the year. The chairman shall annually file with the Commissioner a copy of the report and audit that is required under the Apple Fund.
Code 1950, § 3-515; 1958, c. 148; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-635; 1978, c. 540; 1999, c. 793; 2004, c. 214; 2008, c. 860.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 3.2 - Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food
§ 3.2-1201. Apple Board; composition and appointment of members
§ 3.2-1202. Apple Board membership
§ 3.2-1204. Powers and duties of Apple Board; report
§ 3.2-1205. Commercial apple-producing districts designated
§ 3.2-1206. Apple Fund established
§ 3.2-1208. Referendum on question of levying apple excise tax
§ 3.2-1209. Management of referenda; Commissioner's duties; notice
§ 3.2-1210. Questions to be printed on ballots
§ 3.2-1211. Persons eligible to vote
§ 3.2-1212. Referenda results; action of Governor
§ 3.2-1214. Referenda results; action of Governor
§ 3.2-1215. Disposition of excise tax by producer; reports