Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 79448

Any producer member and his or her alternate on the commission shall be an individual producer or an employee or representative of a producer that has a financial interest in producing nursery products or causing nursery products to be produced. The qualifications of producer members and their alternates shall be maintained during their entire term of office. The absence of any producer member from two consecutive meetings or lapse in qualifications shall be grounds for the commission to declare the seat vacant.