The board may:

1. 1. Employ and discharge assistants and professional counsel as necessary, prescribe their duties and powers, and fix their compensation.
2. 2. Acquire and establish offices, issue negotiable instruments, incur expenses, and enter into any contracts or agreements necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
3. 3. Adopt, rescind, and amend all proper and necessary rules for the exercise of its powers and duties.
4. 4. Enter into arrangements for collection of the assessment on corn marketed in this state.
5. 5. To the extent provided by federal law, be responsible for collection of receipts from the federal assessment, and for expenditure of proceeds from the federal assessment.

[C77, 79, 81, §185C.13] 89 Acts, ch 198, §6; 2009 Acts, ch 95, §2