§ 59729 Committee Member Liability Protection

• •People on special farm or food committees (or their workers) can't be personally blamed for the committee's deals or promises.
• •If the committee makes a bad deal, only the committee is responsible—not the people on it.
• •This rule is only for official committees picked by the director, not random groups.

A group of farmers picks a committee to sell their oranges together. The committee signs a bad deal and loses money.

The farmers can't sue the individual committee members for the bad deal—only the committee itself is on the hook.