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247.5089 Use of assessment funds.
The 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 research, market development and education, the increased use
and sale, domestic and foreign, of small grains and small grains products; and for
the prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which obstruct the free
flow of small grains and small grains products to market. None of these funds shall
be used to lobby as defined in KRS 6.611. The duly certified association receiving
the assessment funds shall, upon the advice and consent of the Kentucky Small
Grain Promotion Council, use and disburse the same as follows:
(1) The association may first refund to itself therefrom the costs and expenses
incurred in the conduct of the referendum;
(2) The association may spend or disburse the necessary funds therefrom for
administrative costs and expenses, but no more than fifteen percent (15%) of
the funds collected in any marketing year shall be so utilized; and
(3) The balance remaining shall be used for the purposes provided in this section,
as determined by the Kentucky Small Grain Promotion Council.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 47, sec. 5, effective July 15, 1994. -Amended 1993 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 66, effective September
16, 1993. -- Created 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 397, sec. 15, effective July 13, 1990.
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