The Department of Agriculture and Commerce shall hire not more than seven (7) marketing managers. The qualifications and salaries for the marketing managers shall be established by the State Personnel Board. Marketing managers shall be employed from a list of applicants approved by the State Personnel Board and recommended by the Director of the Mississippi Cooperative Extension Service, the Executive Director of the Agribusiness Council and the Commissioner of Agriculture, or their designees. Marketing managers shall be assigned to one or more of the marketing sheds at Booneville, Louisville, Wiggins, Bassfield, Taylorsville, Newton, Kemper County and Leakesville. Each of these marketing sheds shall be provided with a digital weighing scale to ensure accurate weight/grade. Each marketing shed shall establish a Producer Advisory Board consisting of four (4) local farmer producers of nuts, fruits or vegetables and three (3) produce industry representatives.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-7-755
Hiring of marketing managers; qualifications and salaries; Producer Advisory Board
Known as the Mississippi Catfish Processor Fair Practices Act
The act spans §§ 69–69 (80 sections).
Laws, 1994, ch. 605, § 5, eff from and after July 1, 1994.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.