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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 247 PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE
247.483 Rules governing holding of referendum prescribed by Commissioner -- Notice -- Limit on assessment.
Download pdfreferendum herein authorized with respect to such agricultural commodity herein referred
to shall be established and determined by the Commissioner of Agriculture; the said
referendum date, area, hours, voting places, rules and regulations with respect to the
holding of such referendum shall be published by the Commissioner conducting the same
through the medium of the public press in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at least thirty
(30) days before the holding of such referendum, and direct written notice thereof shall
likewise be given to each county or area agent, in any county in which such agricultural
product is produced. Such notice shall likewise contain a statement of the amount of the
assessment proposed to be levied, which assessment in any event shall not exceed one
and one-half percent (1.5%) of the value of the year's production of such agricultural
commodity grown by the producer included in the group to which such referendum is
submitted, and shall likewise state the method by which such assessment shall be
collected and how the proceeds thereof shall be administered and the purposes to which
the same shall be applied, which purposes shall be in keeping with the provisions of KRS
247.450 to 247.505. History: Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 171, sec. 12.
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