WAC 24-12-011   Referendum mail ballot voting eligibility.  (1) In the conduct of a referendum mail ballot pursuant to the provisions of RCW 15.24.090 the commission shall require that each returned ballot be accompanied by a completed apple grower eligibility certificate in substantially the following form:

WASHINGTON APPLE COMMISSION

APPLE GROWER ELIGIBILITY CERTIFICATE

(Note:	All appropriate spaces on this certificate must be
	completed to properly qualify your vote.)

I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT:

1.	My name and address are as follows (please print):
	Name: . . . . . . . . . . . .
	Mailing Address: . . . . . . . . . . . .
	Orchard Address: . . . . . . . . . . . .
	City: . . . . . . . . . . . .		State: . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.	I am qualified to vote for one of the following reasons (please check the appropriate space):
	a. . . . .	I am an individual owner-operator or an individual lessee-operator of commercially producing apple orchard/orchards.
	b. . . . .	I am a member of and have been designated to cast the single ballot for (please fill in name), a partnership, joint venture or corporation owning/leasing and operating commercially producing apple orchard/orchards.
3.	The orchard/orchards for which I am casting a vote represents. . . . . . acres of commercially producing apple trees situated in the county/counties of. . . . . . within the state of Washington. (Please combine the total commercially producing apple acreage for which you are voting in the space above.)
		. . . . . . . . . . . . Signature of Voter
		Name (print) . . . . . . . . . . . .
		Date . . . . . . . . . . . .

Note:

A completed apple grower eligibility certificate must accompany each ballot.

     (2) The commission and the director of the department of agriculture may, in counting and validating ballots, rely on and accept the representations of eligibility to vote and the representations of acreage as set forth in the certificate.

     (3) Apple growers entitled to vote in a referendum mail ballot pursuant to the provisions of RCW 15.24.090 are defined to be each grower who operates a commercial producing apple orchard, whether an individual proprietor, partnership, joint venture, or corporation, being entitled to one vote. As to bona fide leased or rented orchards, only the lessee-operator, if otherwise qualified, shall be entitled to vote. Individual commercial orchard operator, if otherwise qualified, shall be entitled to vote as such, even though he is also a member of a partnership or corporation that votes for other apple acreage.

     (4) A commercial producing apple orchard means an apple orchard currently producing or growing apples in sufficient quantity so that the apples are or will be marketed through prevailing commercial channels and are or will be subject to assessment pursuant to the provisions of chapter 15.24 RCW.



[Statutory Authority: Chapters 15.24 and 34.05 RCW. 09-19-074, § 24-12-011, filed 9/16/09, effective 10/17/09. Statutory Authority: RCW 15.24.070(1). 82-17-036 (Order 11), § 24-12-011, filed 8/12/82.]