Requires the board to develop procedures for implementing a cost-benefit analysis of expenditures for advertising and sales promotion. Requires that there be a periodic review of any apple marketing order and a vote by secret ballot every 3 years to determine whether to continue or terminate the marketing order. Prohibits the board of control from expending moneys for political influence, including employing lobbyists, either by contract or direct employment. Requires enforcement of the provision found in Colorado department of agriculture docket no. Requires any expenditures for attorney services not to exceed a certain percentage of the advertising and sales budget.
Capital letters indicate new material to be added to existing statute.
Dashes through the words indicate material to be deleted from existing statute. Provides that no apple marketing order shall be expanded to embrace an additional region without the approval of at least a simple majority of the apple growers subject to the order in the region or counties that are to be added. Apple marketing orders. Limitation of marketing orders. No marketing order 8 shall be issued by the commissioner unless it embraces all persons of a 9 like class in a given area who are engaged in a specific and distinctive 10 agricultural industry or trade within this state.