[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1230.32]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XI--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND 
      ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1230_PORK PROMOTION, RESEARCH, AND CONSUMER INFORMATION--Table of 
 
   Subpart A_Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order
 
Sec.  1230.32  Conduct of election.

    If a State association selects nominees for appointment to the 
Delegate Body through an election, it shall be conducted in the 
following manner:
    (a) Elections shall be administered by the Board and the Board shall 
determine the timing of any elections.
    (b) Producers who are residents of that State may be named as 
candidates for election to be nominees for appointment to the Delegate 
Body:
    (1) By a nominating committee of producers in that State appointed 
by the Board; or
    (2) The number of pork producers in a State shall be determined by 
the Department based on the latest available Department information, 
which tabulates by State the number of farming operations with porcine 
animals.
    (c) To be eligible to vote in an election to nominate producer 
members from a State, a person must:
    (1) Be a producer who is a resident of that State;
    (2) Have paid all assessments due pursuant to this subpart; and
    (3) Not have demanded any refund of an assessment paid pursuant to 
this subpart in the period since the selection of the previous Delegate 
Body.
    (d) The Board shall cause notices of any election to be published at 
least one week prior to the election in a newspaper or newspapers of 
general circulation in that State, and in pork production and 
agricultural trade publications. The notices shall set forth the period 
of time and places for voting and such other information as the Board 
considers necessary.
    (e) The identity of any person who voted and the manner in which any 
person voted shall be kept confidential.

[51 FR 31903, Sept. 5, 1986, as amended at 53 FR 30245, Aug. 11, 1988]