5. Meetings of executive councils and assemblies. Executive councils shall annually elect officers, including a chairman chair, vice-chairman vice-chair and secretary. Each executive council shall hold meetings from time to time, no less than 4 2 times a year, upon call of the executive council chairman chair, a majority of the executive council or upon call of the board. Each assembly shall hold meetings from time to time, no less than once a year, upon call of a majority of its executive council or upon call of the board, provided that district assemblies of growers may hold these meetings jointly in statewide sessions or in concert with other assemblies or groups of assemblies. All meetings of assemblies and executive councils shall must be open to the public and otherwise in compliance with Title 1, chapter 13.

Sec. 3. 36 MRSA §4604, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1987, c. 99, §20, is further amended to read:

2. Programs. The board may make studies,; undertake research, development and investment in infrastructure, marketing and promotional programs,; publish and disseminate information; and implement other programs as are in furtherance of its legislative purposes, provided that programs undertaken by the board shall must be designed to benefit the Maine potato industry at large or segments of the industry, but shall may not be designed to benefit exclusively any one person or entity involved in the industry. The board shall carry out the duties, as set out in Title 7, article 4 and known as the "Maine Bag Program," and shall use any funds granted by the department to the board or obtained by the board from any other source for the Maine Bag Program to promote the sale of tablestock potatoes, except that revenues from the potato tax under section 4605 may not be used to undertake promotional activities of the board.__The board may use funds derived from sources other than the potato tax to carry out advertising and promotional programs in support of the industry.

Sec. 4. 36 MRSA §4604, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 753, §§14 and 15, is amended to read:

5. Books and records; confidentiality. The board shall keep books, records and accounts of all its activities, which shall must be open to inspection and audit by the State at all times. The State Auditor shall may conduct an annual audit of the financial records of the board and shall report the results of the audit to the board, the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, the Treasurer of State and the Legislature.