---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 1220.618"
title: "7"
number: "1220.618"
heading: "Eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/1220.618"
---

# §1220.618. Eligibility.

- (a) **Eligible producers.** Each person who was a producer and provides evidence that they or the producer entity they represent has paid an assessment on soybeans during the representative period is provided the opportunity to request a referendum. Each producer entity is entitled to only one request.
- (b) **Proxy Registration.** Proxy registration is not authorized, except that an officer or employee of a corporate producer, or any guardian, administrator, executor, or trustee of a producer's estate, or an authorized representative of any eligible producer entity (other than an individual producer), such as a corporation or partnership, may request a referendum on behalf of that entity. Any individual who requests a referendum on behalf of any producer entity, shall certify that he or she is authorized by such entity to take such action.
- (c) **Joint and group interest.** A group of individuals, such as members of a family, joint tenants, tenants in common, a partnership, owners of community property, or a corporation engaged in the production of soybeans as a producer entity shall be entitled to make only one request for a referendum; provided, however, that any individual member of a group who is an eligible producer separate from the group may request a referendum separately.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 69 FR 13461, Mar. 23, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 6301-6311 and 7 U.S.C. 7401.