Within 90 days after January 1, 1981, the secretary shall establish a list of producers eligible to vote on implementation of this chapter. In establishing the list, the secretary shall require that processors, county agricultural commissioners, and pistachio producers submit the names, mailing addresses, and district numbers of all pistachio producers who produce merchantable pistachios. The request for the information shall be in writing. The list shall be filed within 30 days following receipt of the written notice.

Any producer of pistachios, whose name does not appear upon the secretary’s list of producers affected, may have his or her name established on the list by filing with the secretary a signed statement, identifying himself or herself as a producer. Failure to be on the list does not exempt the producer from paying assessments under this chapter.