The Texas Agriculture Code, §74.127, provides for payment of a zone's debt in the event of a discontinuation of an eradication program in a zone. If cotton growers voting in a retention referendum conducted under the Texas Agriculture Code, §74.114(a), or a recall referendum conducted under the Texas Agriculture Code, §74.112, approve discontinuation of the eradication program in a zone, all debts of the zone shall be repaid. Assessments shall continue annually on any grower planting cotton in the zone in subsequent years until all debts of the zone are paid.

Source Note:The provisions of this §3.7 adopted to be effective January 8, 1998, 23 TexReg 128.