2017 Revised Code of Washington
Title 15 - AGRICULTURE AND MARKETING
15.35 Washington state milk pooling act.
15.35.120 Qualifications for producers to sign petitions or vote in referendums.
RCW 15.35.120 Qualifications for producers to sign petitions or vote in referendums.
(1) The producers qualified to sign a petition, or to vote in any referendum concerning a market pool, shall be all those producers shipping milk to the market area on a regular supply basis and who would or do receive or pay equalization in an existing market pool in a market area, or in a market pool if established in such market area.
(2) The milk dealers qualified to vote in any referendum establishing a market pool shall be all those milk dealers who operate a plant which is located within the state and who would receive milk priced under a market pool if established in such market area.
(3) The director is authorized during business hours to review the books and records of milk dealers to obtain a list of the producers qualified to sign petitions or to vote in referendums and to verify that such milk dealers are qualified to vote in a referendum.
[ 1991 c 239 § 9; 1971 ex.s. c 230 § 12.]