185.3 - BOARD ESTABLISHED -- ELECTIONS.

        185.3  BOARD ESTABLISHED -- ELECTIONS.
         The Iowa soybean association board of directors shall administer
      this chapter.
         1. a.  The board shall consist of directors who are producers
      residing in Iowa at the time of the election.  The directors shall be
      elected as follows:
         (1)  Four directors shall be elected from producers from the state
      at large.
         (2)  One director per district shall be elected from producers
      from each district in the state.  However, two directors shall be
      elected from the producers from a district if more than an average of
      twenty-five million bushels of soybeans were produced in that
      district in the three years prior to the election.
         b.  A producer shall be entitled to vote in the election
      regardless of whether the producer is a member of the association.
         2.  The following persons shall serve on the board as nonvoting,
      ex officio directors:
         a.  The secretary or the secretary's designee.
         b.  The dean of the college of agriculture and life sciences
      of Iowa state university of science and technology or the dean's
      designee.
         c.  The director of the department of economic development or
      the director's designee.
         d.  Any other person that the board appoints.  
         Secn History: Early Form
         [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 185.3] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         2005 Acts, ch 82, §6; 2008 Acts, ch 1031, §40; 2008 Acts, ch 1032,
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