KRS 247.4461: Certification by Commissioner of Agriculture of agency to conduct

referendum.

Upon the filing with the State Board of Agriculture of the application on the part of any

commission, council, board, association, or other agency of producers, the Commiss ioner

shall within thirty (30) days thereafter convene the State Board of Agriculture to consider

the application; and if upon the consideration the Board of Agriculture shall find that the

commission, council, board, or other agency making the application is fairly

representative of and has been duly chosen and delegated as representative of the

producers producing the commodity, and shall otherwise find and determine that the

application is in conformity with the provisions of KRS 247.4451 to 247.4483 and the

purposes stated, then it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to certify the

commission, council, board, association, or other agency as the duly delegated and

authorized group or agency representative of the producers of the agricultural commodity,

and shall likewise certify that the agency is duly authorized to conduct among the

producers of the commodity a referendum for the purpose stated.