2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - .650   Commissioner to determine date, hours, polling places for voting and details of assessment -- Limits -- Exceptions.

247.650 Commissioner to determine date, hours, polling places for voting and details of assessment -- Limits -- Exceptions. (1) With respect to any referendum conducted under the provisions of KRS 247.610 to 247.685, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, before calling and announcing the referendum, fix, determine, and publicly announce at least thirty (30) days before the date determined for the referendum, the date, hours, and polling places for voting in the referendum, the effective date of the assessment, if adopted, the amount and basis of the assessment proposed to be collected, the means by which the assessment shall be collected if authorized by the producers, and the general purposes to which the amount collected shall be applied. No assessment levied under the provisions of any referendum shall exceed one dollar ($1) on each bovine animal marketed in the state by any producer included in the group to which the referendum was submitted or by any person subsequently becoming a new producer in the area in which the referendum was held. (2) The first referendum held under the provisions of KRS 247.610 to 247.685 shall specify that the assessment, if approved, levied under that referendum shall be ten cents ($0.10) on each bovine animal. (3) No assessment shall be made on any bovine animal marketed in the state which sells for ten dollars ($10) or less. Effective: July 13, 2004 History: Amended 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 1, effective July 13, 2004. -- Created 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 9, sec. 9.