This chapter shall remain operative if either of the following conditions is met:
(a) Not less than 65 percent of the cotton growers certified by the secretary who voted in the referendum, voted in favor of this chapter, and those cotton growers so voting represent at least a majority of the cotton producing acreage of all cotton growers who voted in the referendum.
(b) At least a majority of those cotton growers who voted in the referendum voted in favor of this chapter and those cotton growers so voting represent not less than 65 percent of the cotton producing acreage of all cotton growers who voted in the referendum.
(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 140, Sec. 80. (AB 1164) Effective January 1, 2010. Conditionally inoperative on January 1, 2014, as prescribed in Section 52991.)