---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1210.602"
title: "7"
number: "1210.602"
heading: "Voting."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1210.602"
---

# §1210.602. Voting.

- (a) Each person who is an eligible producer, handler, or importer as defined in this subpart, at the time of the referendum and who also was a producer, handler, or importer during the representative period, shall be entitled to one vote in the referendum: Provided, That each producer in a landlord-tenant relationship or a divided ownership arrangement involving totally independent entities cooperating only to produce watermelons in which more than one of the parties is a producer, shall be entitled to one vote in the referendum covering only that producer's share of the ownership.
- (b) Proxy voting is not authorized, but an officer or employee of a corporate producer, handler, or importer, or an administrator, executor, or trustee of a producing, handling, or importing entity may cast a ballot on behalf of such entity. Any individual so voting in a referendum shall certify that the individual is an officer, employee of the producer, handler, or importer, or an administrator, executor, or trustee of a producing, handling, or importing entity and that the individual has the authority to take such action. Upon request of the referendum agent, the individual shall submit adequate evidence of such authority.
- (c) **Casting of ballots.** All ballots are to be cast as instructed by the Secretary.

## Notes

### Amendments

[66 FR 56388, Nov. 7, 2001, as amended at 79 FR 17852, Mar. 31, 2014]

### Source

Source: 66 FR 56388, Nov. 7, 2001; 67 FR 17907, Apr. 12, 2002, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 4901-4916 and 7 U.S.C. 7401.

### Source

Source: 53 FR 51091, Dec. 20, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[66 FR 56388, Nov. 7, 2001, as amended at 79 FR 17852, Mar. 31, 2014]