Current Legislation

1 FOR AN ACT relating to agriculture; to amend sections 54-191,

54-192, and 54-194, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska;

to change the chairperson of the Nebraska Brand

Committee; to harmonize provisions; and to repeal the

original sections.

6 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,

54-191 The Nebraska Brand Committee is hereby created.

The brand committee shall consist of the Secretary of State,

who shall be chairperson, and four five members appointed by

the Governor. Three At least three appointed members shall be

active cattlepersons and at least one appointed member shall

be an active cattle feeder. The Secretary of State and the

Director of Agriculture, or their designees, shall be nonvoting,

ex officio members of the brand committee. The appointed members

the brand inspection area. The members of the brand committee shall

elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson from among its appointed

members during the first meeting held after September 1 each

calendar year. A member may be reelected to serve as chairperson

or vice-chairperson. The terms of the members shall be four-year,

staggered terms. At the expiration of the term of an appointed

member, the Governor shall appoint a successor. Members serving

on August 28, 1999, shall be considered appointed to serve the

remainder of the term to which they were appointed. If there is

appointive state or federal office while serving as a member of

the brand committee. Each appointed member and each brand committee

such other duties as may be required by the brand committee. The

director shall call a meeting at the direction of the Secretary

of State chairperson of the brand committee, or in his or her

absence the vice-chairperson, or upon the written request of two

the department's committee's headquarters, the assistant director

shall have similar authority as outlined in this section for the

54-194 As The director of the Nebraska Brand Committee

or the chairperson of the brand committee of the Nebraska Brand

Committee, the Secretary of State, or his or her designee, shall

have the authority to sign all certificates and other documents