2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 247 PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE 247.7912 Commissioner to determine date, hours, polling places for voting, and details of assessment -- Uses and limitations of assessment.
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247.7912 Commissioner to determine date, hours, polling places for voting, and
details of assessment -- Uses and limitations of assessment.
(1) With respect to any referendum conducted under the provisions of KRS 247.7900 to
247.7928, the Commissioner shall, before calling and announcing the referendum, <br>fix, determine, and publicly announce at least thirty (30) days before the date <br>determined for the referendum, the date, hours, and polling places for voting in the <br>referendum, the effective date of the assessment, if adopted, the amount and basis of <br>the assessment proposed to be collected, the means by which the assessment shall <br>be collected if authorized by the producers, and the general purposes to which any <br>amount collected shall be applied.
(2) Any assessment levied by any referendum conducted under the provisions of KRS
247.7900 to 247.7928 shall be used for the purpose of financing or contributing <br>towards the financing of a program of research, market development, and education <br>to increase the domestic and foreign consumption, use, sale, and markets for <br>porcine animals and porcine animal products.
(3) No assessment levied by any referendum conducted under the provisions of KRS
247.7900 to 247.7928 shall exceed fifty cents ($0.50) per hundred dollars ($100) <br>worth of sales on porcine animals marketed in the state by any producer included in <br>the group to which the referendum was submitted or by any person subsequently <br>becoming a new producer in the area in which the referendum was held.
Effective: July 13, 2004 <br>History: Created 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 7, effective July 13, 2004.
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