[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: 7CFR717.5]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                            CHAPTER VII--FARM
                SERVICE AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 717--HOLDING OF REFERENDA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 717.5  Community referendum committees.

    (a) Where one referendum is to be conducted. Except where the entire 
county is to be considered a referendum community, the county committee 
shall designate a community referendum committee for each referendum 
community. Each referendum committee shall consist of at least three 
regular members and one alternate. The membership of the referendum 
committee shall be chosen from among the farmers who reside in the 
community and who are eligible to vote in the referendum or who are 
community committeemen elected pursuant to the regulations in the 
subpart--Selection and Functions of Agricultural Stabilization and 
Conservation County and Community committees (part 7 of this title). The 
county committee shall name one member of the community referendum 
committee as chairman and another member thereof as vice chairman. The 
vice chairman shall act as the chairman in the event of the absence or 
incapacity of the chairman and the alternate shall serve on the 
committee in the place of any regular member who cannot serve. The 
community referendum committee shall be responsible for the proper 
holding of the referendum in its community in a fair, unbiased and 
impartial manner in accordance with this part. In counties where the 
entire county is treated as one referendum community, the county 
committee shall perform, in addition to its other duties, the duties of 
the community referendum committee.
    (b) Where two or more referenda are to be conducted. Where two or 
more referenda are to be held in the county on the same day, the 
provisions of paragraph (a) of this section shall be applicable except 
that (1) the total number of farms on which there are producers eligible 
to vote in any one or more of such referenda shall be used to determine 
whether there are 100 or

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more farms on which there are producers who are eligible to vote in the 
referenda, and (2) each community referendum committee shall be chosen 
from among the farmers who reside in the community and who are eligible 
to vote in any of such referenda or who are community committeemen 
elected pursuant to the regulations in the subpart--Selection and 
Functions of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County and 
Community committees (part 7 of this title).