If cotton growers voting in a retention referendum conducted under the Texas Agriculture Code (Code), §74.114, or a recall referendum conducted under the Code, §74.112, approve discontinuation of the eradication program in an eradication zone, all debts of the eradication zone shall be repaid. Assessments shall continue annually on any grower planting cotton in the eradication zone in subsequent years until all debts of the eradication zone are paid.

Source Note: The provisions of this §3.7 adopted to be effective January 8, 1998, 23 TexReg 128; amended to be effective June 26, 2023, 48 TexReg 3405