2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 247 PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE 247.493 On approval, notice to be given milk purchasers as to deduction required -- Disposition of collections.
247.493 On approval, notice to be given milk purchasers as to deduction required -
- Disposition of collections.
In the event a majority of the producers eligible for participation in such referendum and <br>voting therein shall vote in favor of such assessment, then, upon the written request of the <br>duly certified commission, council, board, association or other agency of producers of <br>such agricultural commodity, the Commissioner shall notify forthwith, by certified mail, <br>all persons engaged in the business of purchasing such agricultural commodities in this <br>state, that on and after the date specified in such letter, the specified assessment shall be <br>deducted from the producer's payment by the purchaser, or his agent or representative, <br>from the purchase price of such agricultural commodity. The assessment so deducted <br>shall, on or before the fifteenth day of the month following the end of the month in which <br>such commodity is sold to the purchaser, be remitted by such purchaser to the duly <br>certified commission, council, board, association or other agency of the producers entitled <br>thereto. Such funds, including donations from individuals, concerns, corporations and <br>grants from the state or governmental agencies, shall be used for the purpose of <br>promoting and stimulating, by advertising, research and other methods, the increased use <br>and sale, domestic and foreign, of such agricultural commodity. The books and records of <br>all such purchasers of such agricultural commodity shall at all times during regular <br>business hours be open for inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture or his duly <br>authorized agents.
Effective: July 15, 1980 <br>History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 45, effective July 15, 1980. -- Created
1968 Ky. Acts ch. 171, sec. 14.
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