[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 9]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1160.501]

[Page 200]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER X--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (Marketing Agreements and 
                 Orders; Milk) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1160_FLUID MILK PROMOTION PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart_Fluid Milk Promotion Order
 
Sec.  1160.501  Continuation referenda.

    (a) The Secretary at any time may conduct a referendum among those 
persons who the Secretary determines were fluid milk processors during a 
representative period, as determined by the Secretary, on whether to 
suspend or terminate the order. The Secretary shall hold such a 
referendum at the request of the Board or of any group of such 
processors that marketed during a representative period, as determined 
by the Secretary, 10 percent or more of the volume of fluid milk 
products marketed in the United States by fluid milk processors voting 
in the preceding referendum.
    (b) Any suspension or termination of the order on the basis of a 
referendum conducted pursuant to this section must be favored:
    (1) By at least 50 percent of the fluid milk processors voting in 
the referendum; and
    (2) By fluid milk processors voting in the referendum that marketed 
during a representative period, as determined by the Secretary, 40 
percent or more of the volume of fluid milk products marketed in the 
United States by fluid milk processors voting in the referendum.
    (c) If the Secretary determines that the suspension or termination 
of the order is favored in the manner set forth in Sec.  1160.501(b), 
the Secretary shall take such action within 6 months of such 
determination.

[58 FR 62503, Nov. 29, 1993, as amended at 62 FR 3983, Jan. 28, 1997]