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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE MARKETING SERVICE
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PROGRAMS

CERTIFICATE OF RESOLUTION - CORPORATIONS ONLY
(For use by incorporated handlers)

At a duly convened meeting of the Board of Directors of the 									                                                                                                                       held at  ___________________________________________ on the ___________________day of _____________________20____.

RESOLVED, that ___________________________________________________________________________________________

shall become a party to the marketing agreement regulating the handling of pistachios produced in the State of California, which was 
annexed to and made part of the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary), and it is further, 
RESOLVED, that													                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                (Name)                                                                  (Title)
and                                                                                                                                                                                                 be, and 
                                                               (Name)                                                                  (Title)
the same hereby are, authorized and directed severally or jointly to sign, execute, and deliver counterparts of the said agreement to the Secretary.
I,  _________________________________________, Secretary of __________________________________________________ do
hereby certify this is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted at the above-named meeting as said resolution appears in the 
minutes thereof.  (Corporate Seal; if none, so state)
                                                                                    	                      							         	                                                                                   
		(Signature)                                                                                                                   (Title)

                                    (Address of Firm)                                                                                        (Date of Execution)

During the period                                           through                                                     , the firm named herein handled 		                                                                            pounds of pistachios that were produced in the designated production area.

If one of the contracting parties to this agreement is a corporation, my signature constitutes certification that I have the power granted to me by the Board of Directors to bind this corporation to the marketing agreement.

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