---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1205.24"
title: "7"
number: "1205.24"
heading: "General."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1205.24"
---

# §1205.24. General.


A sign-up period will be conducted to determine whether eligible producers and importers favor the conduct of a referendum on the continuance of the 1991 amendments to the Order.

- (a) If the Secretary determines, based on the results of the sign-up period, that at least 10 percent (4,622) or more of the number of cotton producers and importers who voted in the 1991 referendum request the conduct of a continuance referendum on the 1991 Order amendments, a referendum will be held within 12 months after the end of the sign-up period. Not more than 20 percent of the total requests counted toward the 10 percent figure may be from producers from any one state or from importers of cotton.
- (b) If the Secretary determines that fewer than 10 percent (4,622) of the number of producers and importers who voted in the 1991 referendum do not favor a continuance referendum, no referendum will be held.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 62 FR 1660, Jan. 13, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 2101-2118; 7 U.S.C 7401.