67-8304. POWERS OF THE INSTITUTE. The Idaho food quality assurance institute is an independent public body corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having all the powers which are hereby declared to be public purposes necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act, including the following powers in addition to others herein granted:

(1) To provide an ongoing quality assurance testing program for Idaho agricultural commodities by analyzing and documenting the food safety practices of Idaho producers and such other agricultural commodities by documenting the food safety practices of other producers as feasible;

(2) To provide for the management and operation of the quality assurance laboratory at Twin Falls, Idaho, and to provide and facilitate educational opportunities;

(3) To establish fees for testing and analysis of agricultural commodities and for any other services to be provided to benefit agricultural commodity producers by the laboratory or the institute;

(4) To provide for certification of testing results;

(5) To sue and to be sued, to have a seal and to alter the same at pleasure, to have perpetual succession, and to make and execute agreements, contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers and duties of the institute;

(6) To own, hold and improve personal property; to purchase, lease, obtain options upon, or acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise, any personal property or any interest therein;

(7) To make and from time to time amend and repeal bylaws and rules, not inconsistent with this act, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the institute.

History:

[67-8304, added 1996, ch. 358, sec. 1, p. 1206; am. 1997, ch. 302, sec. 4, p. 903; am. 1998, ch. 202, sec. 3, p. 720.]