1.  Employ personnel deemed necessary by the board, fix the amount and manner of their compensation, and incur other expenses that are necessary and proper to enable the board to effectively carry out the purposes of the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Referendum Act;

2.  Adopt rules as necessary to promptly and effectively administer the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Referendum Act;

3.  Retain legal counsel as is required to fulfill the purposes of the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Referendum Act;

4.  Sue and be sued;

5.  Initiate prosecution and civil remedies necessary to collect any assessments due and owing to the commodity producers board;

6.  Cooperate with local, state or national organizations, whether public or private, in carrying out the purposes of contracts as may be necessary;

7.  Make such reasonable expenditures of funds as is necessary to carry out the provisions of the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Referendum Act;

8.  Call and conduct such meetings and elections as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Referendum Act;

9.  Keep minutes of its meetings and other books and records that clearly reflect all acts and transactions of the board.  The board shall open its records to examination by any participating producer during regular business hours; provided, the board may determine by rule that certain information provided by a commodity producer is proprietary and is confidential;

10.  Set the rate of the assessment.  The rate may not exceed the maximum established in the election authorizing the assessment or a subsequent election establishing a maximum rate;

11.  Act separately or in cooperation with any person in developing, carrying out, and participating in programs of research, disease and insect control, predator control, education, and promotion designed to encourage the production, marketing, and use of the commodity on which the assessment is levied; and

12.  Exercise such other powers as necessary to carry out the purposes of the Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Referendum Act.