ARM 4.6.101. Petition to Create a Commodity Research and Market Development Program

(1) The petition requirements are: (a) name of applicant; (b) address of applicant; (c) if applicant is an organization, a list of officers with complete addresses and phone numbers; (d) the proposed rate of assessment per unit of commodity; (e) a proposed statement of purpose; (f) a list of 25 or more producer signatures (including legibly printed names, addresses, and phone numbers) of this commodity who are petitioning the Montana department of agriculture to develop a commodity research and market development program; (i) the petition must include only names of persons who qualify as a "grower or producer" as defined in 80-11-503 , MCA; "A person or landowner who is personally engaged in growing or producing commodities, or both the landowner and the tenant jointly. The term includes a person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative, trust, sharecropper, and all other business units, devices, and arrangements." (ii) the grower or producer must have grown or produced this agricultural commodity within the last two growing seasons. (g) attach a list of all known producers (with addresses and phone numbers) of this commodity, as defined above, who are 18 years of age or older, and a Montana resident; (h) the department of agriculture shall verify eligibility of petitioners as commodity producers using the definition in (1) (f) (i) ; (i) a petition shall be filed with the department either in person or by certified mail; and (j) application shall include the name, address, and phone numbers of the designated liaison for the petitioners.