Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§2113 Certification of Cotton Producer Organizations

Title 7 › Chapter 53— COTTON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION › § 2113

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must decide if a cotton producer organization can represent a State’s cotton farmers to request a federal order and to take part in making nominations. That decision will be based on other available information and on a factual report the organization sends in. The report must cover seven kinds of information: the parts of the State the group serves; size and makeup of active membership with a county map, cotton volumes, and producer numbers; how members shape policy; proof the group is stable and lasting; where its money comes from; what the group does; and whether it can and will support the program’s goals.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2113

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The eligibility of each cotton producer organization to represent cotton producers of a cotton producing State to request the issuance of an order under section 2103 of this title, and to participate in the making of nominations under section 2106(b) of this title shall be certified by the Secretary and shall be based in addition to other available information upon a factual report submitted by the organization which shall contain information deemed relevant and specified by the Secretary for the making of such determination, including the following:

(a)Geographic territory within the State covered by the organization’s active membership;

(b)Nature and size of the organization’s active membership in the State, proportion of total of such active membership accounted for by farmers, a map showing the cotton-producing counties in such State in which the organization has members, the volume of cotton produced in each such county, the number of cotton producers in each such county, and the size of the organization’s active cotton producer membership in each such county;

(c)The extent to which the cotton producer membership of such organization is represented in setting the organization’s policies;

(d)Evidence of stability and permanency of the organization;

(e)Sources from which the organization’s operating funds are derived;

(f)Functions of the organization; and

(g)The organization’s ability and willingness to further the aims and objectives of this chapter:

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2113

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60