2013 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.
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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 voting therein shall vote in favor of such assessment, then, upon the written
request of the duly certified commission, council, board, association or other agency
of producers of such agricultural commodity, the Commissioner shall notify forthwith,
by certified mail, all persons engaged in the business of purchasing such agricultural
commodities in this state, that on and after the date specified in such letter, the
specified assessment shall be deducted from the producer's payment by the
purchaser, or his agent or representative, from the purchase price of such
agricultural commodity. The assessment so deducted shall, on or before the fifteenth
day of the month following the end of the month in which such commodity is sold to
the purchaser, be remitted by such purchaser to the duly certified commission,
council, board, association or other agency of the producers entitled thereto. Such
funds, including donations from individuals, concerns, corporations and grants from
the state or governmental agencies, shall be used for the purpose of promoting and
stimulating, by advertising, research and other methods, the increased use and sale,
domestic and foreign, of such agricultural commodity. The books and records of all
such purchasers of such agricultural commodity shall at all times during regular
business hours be open for inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture or his
duly authorized agents.
Effective:July 15, 1980
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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