[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR717.1]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 717--HOLDING OF REFERENDA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 717.1  Definitions.

    In determining the meaning of the provisions in this part, unless 
the context indicates otherwise, words importing the singular include 
and apply to several persons or things, words importing the plural 
include the singular, words importing the masculine gender include the 
feminine as well, and words used in the present tense include the future 
as well as the present.
    (a) General terms. The definitions in part 719 of this chapter shall 
apply to this part. The provisions of part 720 of this chapter 
concerning the expiration of time limitations shall apply to this part.
    (b) Act. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and any amendments 
or supplements thereto.
    (c) Referendum community. For referenda conducted by mail ballot, 
the entire county shall be the referendum community. For referenda 
conducted at polling places, the referendum community shall conform with 
the community established by the State committee for purposes of 
elective areas under the regulations in the subpart--Selection and 
Functions of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County and 
Community Committees in part 7, subtitle A, of this title (Sec. 7.7, 33 
FR 12955), as amended from time to time: Provided, That a referendum 
community may be composed of an area differing from the community so 
established in the following cases:
    (1) A referendum community may be established by the county 
committee, with the approval of a representative of the State committee, 
to conform to a

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political township, a local voting precinct for purposes of general 
elections, or a combination of such townships or precincts;
    (2) A referendum community may be established by the county 
committee, if it determines eligible producers will be given a 
convenient place to vote, which consists of a combination of a community 
with less than 25 farms on which there are producers eligible to vote, 
with one or more communities; and
    (3) The entire county shall be the referendum community in counties 
with less than 100 farms on which there are producers eligible to vote 
unless the county committee, with the approval of the State committee, 
determines that more than one referendum community is needed in the 
county.

The county committee shall maintain in the county office, and make 
available for public inspection, a descriptive list of the referendum 
communities established for the county for referenda conducted at 
polling places.

[33 FR 18345, Dec. 11, 1968, as amended by Amdt. 1, 34 FR 12940, Aug. 9, 
1969]