Committee of Management

(1) The Committee shall consist of nine members of the Association who shall be elected by the full members thereof (2) Of the nine members (a) seven shall be persons who shall each have not less than ten acres of citrus trees and who shall each have produced and delivered to the processors not less than one thousand contract boxes of citrus during the preceding year of operation; (b) two shall be persons who shall each have not less than three acres and not more than nine acres of citrus trees and who shall each have produced and delivered to the processors not less than three hundred contract boxes of citrus during the preceding year of operation, Provided that at any election of the Committee of Management, the nine members may, for good and sufficient cause, be elected from the general membership of the Association without regard to the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection. (3) At the first annual general meeting of the Association to be held all the members of the Committee shall retire from office, but they shall be eligible for re-election, and at the annual general meeting in every subsequent year one-third of the elected members for the time being, or, if the number is not a multiple of three, then the number nearest to one-third, shall retire from office. (4) The members to retire in every year shall be those who have been longest in office but as between persons who became members on the same day those to retire shall (unless they so agree among themselves) be determined by lot. (5) A retiring member shall be eligible for re-election. REVISD EDITION 2020 Printed by Authority of the Government of Belize 22 (6) Any person who is indebted to the Association in any sum exceeding one thousand dollars and has been delinquent for more than two years shall not be eligible for election to the Committee, and no such person shall be elected to the Committee notwithstanding that he is a registered member of Provided that after such person has fully discharged his indebtedness to the Association, he may, subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, be eligible for election to (7) Where any member of the Committee is or becomes indebted to the Association in any sum exceeding one thousand dollars and has been or remains delinquent for more than two years, he shall be deemed to have vacated his seat, Provided that after such member has fully discharged his indebtedness to the Association, he may, subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, be eligible for election to