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Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-020 - The oilseeds board

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(1)
Administration.
The provisions of this order and the applicable
				provisions of the act is administered and enforced by the oilseeds board as the
				designee of the director.
(2)
Board membership.
(a) The board
				shall consist of seven members as follows:
Position 1 is appointed by the director and must be a
				  producer.
Position 2 is appointed by the director and must be a
				  producer.
Position 3 is elected by the producers and must be a
				  producer.
Position 4 is elected by the producers and must be a
				  producer.
Position 5 is elected by the producers and must be a
				  producer.
Position 6 is appointed by the director and must be a
				  handler.
Position 7 is appointed by the director to represent the
				  department and the public and must be neither a producer nor a handler.
(b) Transition to amended
				marketing order: The position numbers under the prior marketing order
				correspond to the positions under the amended marketing order as follow:
Prior Marketing Order Position
Amended Marketing Order Position
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
Eliminated
5
4
6
5
7
6
8
7
(c)
				Board members elected or appointed under the prior marketing order shall
				continue to serve their respective terms, provided that thirty days from the
				effective date of this amended marketing order, the board shall forward to the
				director the names of the board members elected or appointed to position 1, 2,
				and 6 under this amended marketing order, whereupon the director will appoint
				the members to serve their respective terms. The qualifications required for
				each position under this amended marketing order become effective upon
				expiration of any terms starting under the prior marketing order. Any vacancies
				on the effective date of this amended marketing order must be filled in
				conformance with this amended marketing order.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-030 - Marketing order purposes

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This marketing order is to promote the general welfare of
				  the state and for the purpose of maintaining existing markets or creating new
				  or larger local, domestic and foreign markets; or increasing production
				  efficiency, ensuring a fair regulatory environment; or increasing per capita
				  use of oilseed products grown in Washington state. The Washington state
				  oilseeds board is designated by the director to conduct the following programs
				  in accordance with
				  chapter
				  15.65 RCW:
(1) Establish plans and conduct programs for
				marketing, sales, promotion or other programs for maintaining present markets
				or creating new or larger markets for oilseeds. The programs shall be directed
				toward increasing the sale of oilseeds without reference to any particular
				brand or trade name and shall neither make use of false or unwarranted claims
				in behalf of oilseeds nor disparage the quality, value, sale or use of any
				other agricultural commodity.
(2)
				Provide for research in the production, processing, irrigation, transportation,
				handling or distribution of oilseeds and expend the necessary funds for such
				purposes. Insofar as practicable, the research must be carried out by
				Washington State University, but if in the judgment of the board the Washington
				State University does not have adequate facilities for a particular project or
				if some other research agency has better facilities , the project may be
				carried out by other research agencies selected by the board.
(3) Provide for the prevention, modification
				or removal of trade barriers which obstruct the free flow of the affected
				commodity to market.
(4) Conduct
				programs for the purpose of providing information and education including:
(a) Marketing information and services for
				producers of oilseeds for the verification of grades, standards, weights, tests
				and sampling of quality and quantity of oilseeds purchased by handlers from
				producers;
(b) Information and
				services enabling producers to meet their resource conservation
				objectives;
(c) Oilseed-related
				education and training.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-040 - Assessments and collections

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(1)
Assessments.
(a) The assessment
				on all varieties of oilseeds subject to this marketing order shall be ten cents
				per hundredweight and shall be deducted by the first purchaser from the price
				paid to the grower. The assessment shall be remitted to the board in accordance
				with procedures adopted by the board.
(b) The assessments shall not be payable on
				any oilseeds used by the producer on their premises for feed, seed and personal
				consumption.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-041 - Time - Place - Method for payment and collection of assessments

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Effective with the growing season of 1998, the following
				  procedure is established for the reporting and paying of assessments levied
				  pursuant to
				  RCW
				  15.65.410 and WAC
				  16-573-040:
(1) All first handlers of oilseeds grown in
				the state of Washington, or the person acting on behalf of a first buyer, shall
				withhold the amount of assessment from their remittance to growers of oilseeds
				and transmit it to the board.
(2)
				All assessments will be due and payable to the board within thirty days of
				collection. With the submission of the assessments, a report listing the name,
				address, volume handled or purchased and amount deducted or collected for each
				producer must be submitted to the board on forms provided by or approved by the
				board.
(3) Any assessments paid
				after the above deadlines shall be accompanied by a penalty fee of ten percent
				in accordance with
				RCW
				15.65.440 of the act.
Statutory Authority:
					 Chapter
					 15.65 RCW. 98-04-093,
					 § 16-573-041, filed 2/4/98, effective
					 6/1/98.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-050 - Obligations of the board

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Obligations incurred by the board or employee or agent
				  pertaining to their performance or nonperformance or misperformance of any
				  matters or things authorized, required or permitted them by the act or this
				  order, and any other liabilities or claims against them or any of them shall be
				  enforced in the same manner as if the whole organization under the order were a
				  corporation. No liability for the debts or actions of the board, employee or
				  agent incurred in their official capacity under this order shall exist either
				  against the board, officers, employees or agents in their individual capacity,
				  nor against the state of Washington or any subdivision or instrumentality
				  thereof nor against any other organization, administrator or board (or employee
				  or agent) established under this act or the assets thereof. The board, and its
				  agents and employees, shall not be held responsible individually in any way
				  whatever to any person for errors in judgment, mistakes, or other acts, either
				  of commission or omission, as principal, agent, person or employee, except for
				  their own individual acts of dishonesty or crime. No person or employee shall
				  be held responsible individually for any act or omission of any other board,
				  member of the board, or other person. The liability of the members of the board
				  shall be several and not joint and no member shall be liable for the default of
				  any other member.
Statutory Authority:
					 Chapter
					 15.65 RCW. 98-04-093,
					 § 16-573-050, filed 2/4/98, effective
					 6/1/98.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-051 - Description of commission, address, and telephone number of the Washington oil seeds commission

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Headquartered in Kennewick at 6601 W. Deschutes Ave., Suite
				  C-2, Kennewick, WA 99336, the Washington oilseeds commission serves Washington
				  oilseed producers by supporting the oilseed industry in the areas of research
				  and marketing. The telephone number is 509-585-5460.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-052 - Public records officer

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(1) The
				commission's public records shall be in the charge of the public records
				officer designated by the commission. The commission or its executive director
				may appoint a temporary public records officer to serve during the absence of
				the designated records officer. The public records officer shall be responsible
				for implementing the commission's rules regarding disclosure of public records,
				coordination of staff regarding disclosure of public records, and generally
				insuring compliance by staff with public records disclosure
				requirements.
(2) The name of the
				commission's current public records officer is on file with the office of the
				code reviser in accordance with
				RCW
				42.56.580 and is published in the
Washington State Register.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-053 - Request for public records

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(1)
				All requests for disclosure of public records must be submitted in writing
				directly to the commission's public records officer by mail to Washington
				oilseeds commission, 6601 W. Deschutes Ave., Suite C-2, Kenne-wick, WA 99336.
				The request may also be submitted by fax to 509-585-2671 or by email to:
				shanej@agmgt.com. The written request must include:
(a) The name, address, and telephone number
				or other contact information of the person requesting the records;
(b) The calendar date on which the request is
				made; and
(c) Sufficient
				information to readily identify records being requested.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-054 - Response to public records requests

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(1) The public records officer shall respond
				to public records requests within five business days by:
(a) Making the records available for
				inspection or copying;
(b)
				Providing a link or address for a record available on the internet under
				RCW
				42.56.520;
(c) Acknowledging receipt of the request and
				providing a reasonable estimate of the time the commission will require to
				respond to the request;
(d) Sending
				the copies to the requestor if copies are requested and payment of a deposit
				for the copies is made or terms of payment have been agreed upon; or
(e) Denying the public records request.
				Responses refusing in whole or in part the inspection of a public record shall
				include a statement of the specific exemption authorizing withholding of the
				record, or any part of the record, and a brief explanation of how the exemption
				applies to the record withheld or to any redactions in records
				produced.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-055 - Fees-Inspection and copying

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(1) No
				fee will be charged for the inspection of public records.
(2) Pursuant to
				RCW
				42.56.120(2), the commission
				declares for the following reasons that it would be unduly burdensome for it to
				calculate the actual costs it charges for providing copies of public records:
				Funds were not allocated for performing a study to calculate actual costs and
				the commission lacks the necessary funds to perform a study and calculations;
				staff resources are insufficient to perform a study and to calculate such
				actual costs; and a study would interfere with and disrupt other essential
				agency functions.
(3) The
				commission may charge fees for production of copies of public records
				consistent with the fee schedule established in
				RCW
				42.56.120. For all copying or duplicating
				service charges incurred, an invoice will be sent to the requestor.
				Reimbursement is payable within fifteen days of receipt of invoice payable to
				the Washington oilseeds commission. The commission may require that all charges
				be paid in advance of release of the copies of the records.
(4) The commission or its designee may waive
				any of the foregoing copying costs.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-056 - Exemptions

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The commission's public records are available for disclosure
				  except as otherwise provided under chapter 42.56 RCW or any other law.
				  Requestors should be aware of the following exemptions to public disclosure
				  specific to commission records. This list is not exhaustive and other
				  exemptions may apply:
(1) Production or
				sales records required to determine assessment levels and actual assessment
				payments to the commission under chapter 15.65 RCW (reference
				RCW
				42.56.380(3) ).
(2) Financial and commercial information and
				records supplied by persons:
(a) To the
				commission for the purpose of conducting a referendum for the establishment of
				the commission; or
(b) To the
				commission under chapter 15.65 RCW with respect to domestic or export marketing
				activities or individual producer's production information (reference
				RCW
				42.56.380(5) ).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-057 - Review of denial of public records requests

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(1) Any person who objects to the initial
				denial of a request to copy or inspect public records may petition the
				commission for review of such decision by submitting a written request to the
				commission. The request shall specifically refer to statement which constituted
				or accompanied the denial.
(2) The
				commission's executive director or designee shall immediately consider the
				matter and either affirm or reverse the denial within ten business days
				following the commission's receipt of the written request for review of the
				original denial.
(3) Under
				RCW
				42.56.530, if the commission denies a
				requestor access to public records because it claims the record is exempt in
				whole or in part from disclosure, the requestor may request the attorney
				general's office to review the matter.
(4) Any person may obtain court review of a
				denial of a public records request under
				RCW
				42.56.550.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-058 - Records index

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The commission shall establish a records index, which shall
				  be made available for public review. The index includes the following
				  records:
(1) Commission authorizing
				statute;
(2) Commission marketing
				order;
(3) Minutes of commission
				meetings;
(4) Commission board
				roster; and
(5) List of research
				projects.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-060 - Termination of the order

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Termination shall be accomplished pursuant to
				  RCW
				  15.65.183 through
				  15.65.193.
Statutory Authority:
					 Chapter
					 15.65 RCW. 98-04-093,
					 § 16-573-060, filed 2/4/98, effective
					 6/1/98.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-573 - Oilseeds commission › Section 16-573-080 - Severability

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If any provisions of the order are declared invalid, or the
				  applicability to any person, circumstances or thing is held invalid, the
				  validity of the remainder provisions or of the applicability to any other
				  person, circumstances or thing shall not be affected.
Statutory Authority:
					 Chapter
					 15.65 RCW. 98-04-093,
					 § 16-573-080, filed 2/4/98, effective
					 6/1/98.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-005 - Definitions

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"Commission" means the Washington wine commission.
"Public records" includes any writing containing information
				  relating to the conduct of government or the performance of any governmental or
				  proprietary function prepared, owned, used, or retained by the commission
				  regardless of physical form or characteristics.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-010 - Time - Place - Method for payment and collection of assessments

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Effective with the growing season of 1990, the following
				  procedure is established for the reporting and paying of the assessment of
				  three dollars per ton of vinifera grapes harvested, levied pursuant to
				  RCW
				  15.88.130:
(1) All first handlers of vinifera grapes for
				resale or for processing shall withhold the amount of the assessment from their
				remittance to growers and transmit same to the commission. All such assessments
				accumulated will be due and payable to the commission on or before December 31
				of each year. First handlers shall submit to the commission on or before
				December 31 of each year, a report listing the name, address, tons of vinifera
				grapes handled or purchased, and amount deducted or collected for each grower
				on forms provided by the commission.
(2) All growers selling vinifera grapes for
				export, shall pay the assessment directly to the commission, on or before
				December 31 of each year. Such growers shall submit to the commission on or
				before December 31 of each year, a report listing the name and address of the
				exporter, tons sold, and assessment due, on forms provided by the
				commission.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.88.130. 90-23-042, § 16-575-010,
					 filed 11/15/90, effective 12/16/90.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-015 - Rate of assessment - Method of adjustment - Notice

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(1) Beginning on July 1, 2007, the assessment
				rate for vinifera grapes grown in this state shall not be less than three
				dollars per ton nor more than twelve dollars per ton. The assessment rate for
				wine producers shall not be less than $0.02 per gallon nor more than $0.08 per
				gallon. The Washington wine commission may adjust the assessment amount levied
				on wine producers and grape growers as needed to fund necessary commission
				activities. Provided, that any adjustment in the assessment rate by the
				commission be levied in an equal and proportional manner upon both the wine
				producers and grape growers. In determining whether to adjust the assessment
				amount the commission shall consider the following factors:
(a) The commission's budgetary needs,
				including but not limited to a qualitative and quantitative review of programs
				carried out in the preceding year by the commission. This review should
				consider whether the program met its goals, benchmarks and objectives and
				whether the program constitutes the best use of the wine commission's finite
				resources;
(b) Projected grape
				production;
(c) Changes in
				administrative costs;
(d) Changes
				in the industry outside the control of the wine commission.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-020 - Penalties

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Any due and payable assessment herein levied in such
				  specified amount as may be determined by the commission pursuant to the
				  provisions of the act and the order, shall constitute a personal debt of every
				  person so assessed or who otherwise owes the same, and the same shall be due
				  and payable to the commission on December 31 of each year.
In the event any person fails to pay the commission the full
				  amount of such assessment or such other sum on or before the date due, the
				  commission may, and is hereby authorized to, add to such unpaid assessment or
				  sum an amount not exceeding ten percent of the same to defray the cost of
				  enforcing the collection of the same.
In the event of failure of such person or persons to pay any
				  such due and payable assessment or other such sum, the commission may bring a
				  civil action against such person or persons in a state court of competent
				  jurisdiction for the collection thereof, together with the above specified ten
				  percent thereon, and such action shall be tried and judgment rendered as in any
				  other cause of action for debt due and payable.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.88.130. 90-23-042, § 16-575-020,
					 filed 11/15/90, effective 12/16/90.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-040 - Rules for implementation of promotional hosting by the Washington wine commission

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RCW 15.04.200 provides that
				  agricultural commodity commissions shall adopt rules governing promotional
				  hosting expenditures by agricultural commodity commission employees, agents, or
				  commissioners. "Promotional hosting" means the hosting of individuals or groups
				  of individuals at meetings, meals, events, tours, or other gatherings for the
				  purpose of agricultural development, trade promotion, cultivating trade
				  relations, or in the aid of the marketing, advertising, or sale of Washington
				  state wine or wine grapes.
The rules governing promotional hosting expenditures for the
				  Washington wine commission shall be as follows:
(1) Budget approval. Commission expenditures
				for agricultural development, trade promotion, and promotional hosting shall be
				pursuant to specific budget items in the commission's annual budget as approved
				by the commission and the director.
(2) Officials and agents authorized to make
				expenditures. The following officials and agents are authorized to make
				expenditures for agricultural development, trade promotion, and promotional
				hosting in accordance with the provisions of these rules:
(a) Commissioners;
(b) Executive director;
(c) Commission staff, as authorized in
				writing by the executive director.
Individual commissioners shall make promotional hosting
				  expenditures, or seek reimbursements for those expenditures, only in those
				  instances where the expenditures have been approved by the commission.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-050 - Description of commission, address and telephone number of the Washington wine commission

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Headquartered at:
Washington Wine Commission
1201 Western Avenue, Suite 450
Seattle, WA 98101-3402
Phone: 206-326-5759
The Washington wine commission serves Washington wine
				  producers and wine grape growers by engaging directly or indirectly in the
				  promotion of Washington wine.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-055 - Public records officer

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(1) The
				commission's public records shall be in the charge of the public records
				officer designated by the commission. The commission or its executive director
				may appoint a temporary public records officer to serve during the absence of
				the designated records officer. The public records officer shall be responsible
				for implementing the commission's rules regarding disclosure of public records,
				coordination of staff regarding disclosure of public records, and generally
				insuring compliance by staff with public records disclosure
				requirements.
(2) The name of the
				commission's current public records officer is on file with the office of the
				code reviser and in accordance with
				RCW
				42.56.580 and is published in the
Washington State Register.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-060 - Request for public records

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(1)
				All requests for disclosure of public records must be submitted in writing
				directly to the commission's public records officer by mail to:
Washington Wine Commission
1201 Western Avenue, Suite 450
Seattle, WA 98101-3402
The request may also be submitted by email to:
Cchonette@washingtonwine.org. The written request must
				  include:
(a) The name, address, and
				telephone number or other contact information of the person requesting the
				records;
(b) The calendar date on
				which the request is made; and
(c)
				Sufficient information to readily identify records being requested.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-065 - Response to public records requests

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(1) The public records officer shall respond
				to public records requests within five business days by:
(a) Making the records available for
				inspection or copying;
(b)
				Providing a link or address for a record available on the internet under
				RCW
				42.56.520;
(c) Acknowledging receipt of the request and
				providing a reasonable estimate of the time the commission will require to
				respond to the request;
(d) Sending
				the copies to the requestor if copies are requested and payment of a deposit
				for the copies is made or terms of payment have been agreed upon; or
(e) Denying the public records request.
				Responses refusing in whole or in part the inspection of a public record shall
				include a statement of the specific exemption authorizing withholding of the
				record, or any part of the record, and a brief explanation of how the exemption
				applies to the record withheld or to any redactions in records
				produced.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-070 - Fees-Inspection and copying

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(1) No
				fee will be charged for the inspection of public records.
(2) Pursuant to
				RCW
				42.56.120(2), the commission
				declares for the following reasons that it would be unduly burdensome for it to
				calculate the actual costs it charges for providing copies of public records:
				Funds were not allocated for performing a study to calculate actual costs and
				the commission lacks the necessary funds to perform a study and calculations;
				staff resources are insufficient to perform a study and to calculate such
				actual costs; and a study would interfere with and disrupt other essential
				agency functions.
(3) The
				commission may charge fees for production of copies of public records
				consistent with the fee schedule established in
				RCW
				42.56.120. For all copying or duplicating
				service charges incurred, an invoice will be sent to the requestor.
				Reimbursement is payable within fifteen days of receipt of the invoice and is
				payable to the Washington wine commission. The commission may require that all
				charges be paid in advance of release of the copies of the records.
(4) The commission or its designee may waive
				any of the foregoing copying costs.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-075 - Exemptions

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The commission's public records are available for disclosure
				  except as otherwise provided under chapter 42.56 RCW or any other law.
				  Requestors should be aware of the following exemptions to public disclosure
				  specific to commission records. This list is not exhaustive and other
				  exemptions may apply:
(1) Production
				or sales records required to determine assessment levels and actual assessment
				payments to the commission under chapter 15.88 RCW (reference
				RCW
				42.56.380(3) );
(2) Financial and commercial information and
				records supplied by persons to the commission under chapter 15.88 RCW with
				respect to domestic or export marketing activities or individual producer's
				production information (reference
				RCW
				42.56.380(5) );
(3) Lists of individuals requested for
				commercial purposes (reference
				RCW
				42.56.070 );
(4) Records that are relevant to a
				controversy to which the commission is a party but which records would not be
				available to another party under the rules of pretrial discovery for causes
				pending in the superior courts, including records involving attorney-client
				communications between the commission and the office of the attorney general
				(reference
				RCW
				5.60.060(2) and
				42.56.290
				);
(5) Credit card numbers, debit
				card numbers, electronic check numbers, card expiration dates, or bank or other
				financial account numbers, except when disclosure is expressly required or
				governed by other law (reference
				RCW
				42.56.230(5) ).
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-575 - Wine commission › Section 16-575-080 - Review of denial of public records requests

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(1) Any person who objects to the initial
				denial of a request to copy or inspect public records may petition the
				commission for review of such decision by submitting a written request to the
				commission. The request shall specifically refer to the statement which
				constituted or accompanied the denial.
(2) The commission's executive director or
				designee shall immediately consider the matter and either affirm or reverse the
				denial within ten business days following the commission's receipt of the
				written request for review of the original denial.
(3) Under
				RCW
				42.56.530, if the commission denies a
				requestor access to public records because it claims the record is exempt in
				whole or in part from disclosure, the requestor may request the attorney
				general's office to review the matter.
(4) Any person may obtain court review of a
				denial of a public records request under
				RCW
				42.56.550.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-005 - Marketing order for Puget Sound gillnet salmon - Policy statement

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(1) The marketing
				of Puget Sound gillnet salmon within this state is in the public interest. It
				is vital to the continued economic well-being of the citizens of this state and
				their general welfare that Puget Sound gillnet salmon be properly promoted by:
(a) Enabling producers of Puget Sound gillnet
				salmon to help themselves in establishing orderly, fair, sound, efficient, and
				unhampered marketing, grading, and standardizing of the Puget Sound gillnet
				salmon they produce; and
(b)
				Working towards stabilizing the agricultural industry by increasing consumption
				of Puget Sound gillnet salmon within the state, the nation, and
				internationally.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-006 - Marketing order purposes

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This marketing order is to promote the general welfare of the
				  state and for the purposes of maintaining existing markets or creating new or
				  larger local, domestic, and foreign markets; increasing production efficiency;
				  ensuring a fair regulatory environment; or increasing per capita consumption of
				  Puget Sound gillnet salmon produced in Washington state. The Washington state
				  Puget Sound salmon commodity board is designated by the director to conduct the
				  following programs in accordance with
				  chapter
				  15.65 RCW:
(1) Establish plans and conduct programs for
				marketing, labeling, sales, promotion, public relations, and consumer
				education, or other programs for maintaining present markets or creating new or
				larger markets for commercially harvested Puget Sound gillnet salmon and salmon
				products. Such programs shall be directed toward increasing the sale, improving
				the markets, or promoting Puget Sound gillnet salmon and salmon products
				without reference to any particular brand or trade name and shall neither make
				use of false or unwarranted claims on behalf of commercial Puget Sound gillnet
				salmon products nor disparage the quality, value, sale, or use of any other
				agricultural commodity. The board may also engage in cooperative efforts in the
				domestic or foreign marketing of Puget Sound gillnet salmon.
(2) Provide for research in the production,
				transportation, handling, management, harvest, harvest management, harvest
				selectivity, harvest regulation or proposed regulation, protection against
				harvest impact on habitat or other species, processing or marketing of
				commercial Puget Sound gillnet salmon products and expend the necessary funds
				for such purposes. Insofar as practicable, such research shall be carried on by
				experiment stations of Washington State University or the University of
				Washington, but if in the judgment of the board, said experiment stations do
				not have the facilities for a particular project or if some other research
				agency has better facilities therefore, the project may be carried out by other
				research agencies selected by the board.
(3) Conduct programs for the purpose of
				providing information and education including:
(a) Marketing information and services for
				affected producers of Puget Sound gillnet salmon for the verification of
				grades, standards, weights, tests, and sampling of quality and quantity of
				Puget Sound gillnet salmon purchased by handlers from affected
				producers.
(b) Information and
				services enabling affected producers to meet their resource conservation
				objectives.
(c) Puget Sound gillnet
				salmon-related education and training.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-020 - Puget Sound salmon commodity board

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(1) Administration. The provisions of this
				marketing order and the applicable provisions of the act shall be administered
				and enforced by the board as the designee of the director.
(2) Board membership. The board shall consist
				of seven members, six of whom shall be affected producers appointed or elected
				as provided in this section. The director shall appoint one additional member
				to the board who is not an affected producer to represent the director. The
				position representing the director shall be a voting member.
(a) Director-appointed affected producer
				positions on the board shall be designated as position one, position two, and
				position three.
(b) Elected
				affected producer positions on the board shall be designated as position four,
				position five, and position six.
(c) The position representing the director
				who is not an affected producer shall be designated as position
				seven.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-050 - Time - Place - Method for payment and collection of assessments - Landing reports

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The following procedure is established for the reporting and
				  paying of assessments:
(1) At the time
				of Puget Sound gillnet salmon landing, first sale or completion of a Washington
				department of fish and wildlife landing receipt (fish ticket), the producer
				shall pay and the handler shall collect and deduct from the price paid to the
				producer the producer's two percent assessment on the landed value of the Puget
				Sound gillnet salmon. This collection and deduction shall be accurately
				reported on the fish ticket.
(2) No
				later than thirty days from the last day of any month in which any Puget Sound
				gillnet salmon has been obtained by a handler, each such handler shall:
(a) Remit to the board all sums required to
				be collected and deducted from affected producers upon their landings during
				that month for a total of two percent of the landed value of Puget Sound
				gillnet salmon obtained by that handler during that month.
(b) Provide to the board with such remittance
				a report indicating the full name, address, and commercial salmon fishing
				license number of each affected producer from whom the said handler has
				purchased or obtained affected commodity during the said month and for each
				such affected producer, indicate the landed value of the Puget Sound gillnet
				salmon purchased or obtained, and the amount of the producer's two percent
				assessment which has been collected from that producer.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-060 - Obligations of the board

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Obligations incurred by the board or employees or agents
				  thereof pertaining to their performance or nonperformance or misperformance of
				  any matters or things authorized, required, or permitted them by the act or
				  this order, and any other liabilities or claims against them or any of them
				  shall be enforced in the same manner as if the whole organization under this
				  order were a corporation. No liability for the debts or actions of the board,
				  employees, or agents incurred in their official capacity under this order shall
				  exist either against the board, officers, employees, or agents in their
				  individual capacity, nor against the state of Washington or any subdivision or
				  instrumentality thereof nor against any other organization, administrator, or
				  board (or employee or agent thereof) established pursuant to this act or the
				  assets thereof. The board, and its agents and employees, shall not be held
				  responsible individually in any way whatsoever to any person for errors in
				  judgment, mistakes, or other acts, either of commission or omission, as
				  principal, agent, person, or employee, except for their own individual acts of
				  dishonesty or crime. No such person or employee shall be held responsible
				  individually for any act or omission of any other board, member of the board,
				  or other person. The liability of the members of the board shall be several and
				  not joint and no member shall be liable for the default of any other
				  member.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.65.047 and
					 chapter
					 34.05 RCW. 05-13-008,
					 § 16-585-060, filed 6/3/05, effective 7/4/05. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.65.050 and
					 chapter
					 16.65 WAC [15.65 RCW].
					 95-15-102, § 16-585-060, filed 7/19/95, effective
					 8/19/95.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-070 - Termination of this order

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Termination shall be accomplished pursuant to
				  RCW
				  15.65.183 through
				  15.65.193.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.65.047 and
					 chapter
					 34.05 RCW. 05-13-008,
					 § 16-585-070, filed 6/3/05, effective 7/4/05. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.65.050 and
					 chapter
					 16.65 WAC [15.65 RCW].
					 95-15-102, § 16-585-070, filed 7/19/95, effective
					 8/19/95.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-080 - Effective time

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This marketing order for Puget Sound salmon shall become
				  effective on or after April 1, 1995, and shall remain in full force and effect
				  until terminated under the provisions of the act.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.65.050 and
					 chapter
					 16.65 WAC [15.65 RCW].
					 95-15-102, § 16-585-080, filed 7/19/95, effective
					 8/19/95.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-090 - Separability

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If any provisions hereof are declared invalid, or the
				  applicability thereof to any person, circumstances, or thing is held invalid,
				  the validity of the remainder hereof or of the applicability thereof to other
				  person, circumstances, or thing shall not be affected
				  thereby.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 15.65.050 and
					 chapter
					 16.65 WAC [15.65 RCW].
					 95-15-102, § 16-585-090, filed 7/19/95, effective
					 8/19/95.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-105 - Public records officer

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(1) The
				commission's public records shall be in the charge of the public records
				officer designated by the commission. The commission or its executive director
				may appoint a temporary public records officer to serve during the absence of
				the designated records officer. The public records officer shall be responsible
				for implementing the commission's rules regarding disclosure of public records,
				coordination of staff regarding disclosure of public records, and generally
				ensuring compliance by staff with public records disclosure
				requirements.
(2) The name of the
				commission's current public records officer is on file with the office of the
				code reviser in accordance with
				RCW
				42.56.580 and is published in the
Washington State Register.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-110 - Requests for public records

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(1)
				All requests for disclosure of public records must be submitted in writing
				directly to the commission's public records officer by mail to Puget Sound
				Salmon Commission, 6601 W. Deschutes Avenue, Suite C-2, Kennewick, WA 99336.
				The request may also be submitted by fax to 509-585-2671 or by email to:
				mjohnson@agmgt.com. The written request should include:
(a) The name, address and telephone number or
				other contact information of the person requesting the records;
(b) The calendar date on which the request is
				made; and
(c) Sufficient
				information to readily identify records being requested.
Washington Administrative Code › Title 16 - Agriculture, Department of (See also Titles 24, 60, and 142) › MARKETING ORDERS › Chapter 16-585 - Puget Sound salmon commission › Section 16-585-115 - Response to public records requests

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(1) The public records officer shall respond
				to public records requests within five business days by:
(a) Making the records available for
				inspection or copying;
(b)
				Providing a link or address for a record available on the internet under
				RCW
				42.56.520;
(c) Acknowledging receipt of the request and
				providing a reasonable estimate of the time the commission will require to
				respond to the request;
(d) Sending
				the copies to the requestor if copies are requested and payment of a deposit
				for the copies is made or terms of payment have been agreed upon; or
(e) Denying the public records request.
				Responses refusing in whole or in part the inspection of a public record shall
				include a statement of the specific exemption authorizing withholding of the
				record, or any part of the record, and a brief explanation of how the exemption
				applies to the record withheld or to any redactions in records
				produced.