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260.600 Licensing requirement -- Fees.
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Any person requiring a license may obtain an application by calling the
Kentucky Department of Agriculture, Division of Regulation and Inspection. A
license may be renewed when accompanied by a renewal application and the
required fees. A license for the current year shall not be issued if there are past
due license fees and penalties pending for previous years. With regard to shell
egg dealers, wholesalers, and packers, and specialty egg processors, dealers,
and wholesalers, all of the previous year's assessment fees shall be current
before licenses shall be renewed. Any person selling eggs without the required
license will be subject to having the eggs removed from sale until a license has
been acquired.
A license is required of each handler of eggs selling in the Commonwealth
subject to the exceptions specified in KRS 260.550. The annual license fees
are as follows, varying for dealers, distributors, wholesalers, producers, and
packers, according to the average weekly volume of the month in which the
licensee handled the most eggs during the preceding year:
(a)
Retailers
$20.00
(b) Shell egg dealers, distributors, wholesalers, producers, and packers
within
Kentucky or out-of-state:
1-25 cases or 1-750 dozen
$20.00
26-50 cases or 751-1500 dozen
$30.00
Over 50 cases or over 1500 dozen
$50.00
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Specialty egg processors, dealers, and wholesalers within
Kentucky or out-of-state
$50.00.
Any egg handler engaged in more than one (1) type of activity for which a
license is provided shall pay that license fee which is the highest of the
licenses prescribed for each type of activity in which he is engaged.
All eggs bought or sold within the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall bear a two
cent ($0.02) assessment fee for each fifteen (15) dozen shell egg lot or portion
thereof. Pasteurized liquid and pasteurized frozen egg products shall be
assessed a fee of one-half (1/2) cent ($0.005) per ten (10) pound lot. Dried,
dehydrated, hard-cooked, or specialty egg products shall be assessed a fee of
one cent ($0.01) per ten (10) pound lot. These assessment fees shall be
assessed and paid one (1) time as agreed between responsible parties as the
product moves through the distribution network. All reports and fees are due
monthly and shall be received by the department prior to the fifteenth of the
month following the month of activity, unless there is an agreement with the
department to report and pay these fees on a quarterly, semi-annual, or annual
basis. In this event, the reports and fees shall be received prior to the fifteenth
of the month following the period of activity.
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All licenses shall expire on April 1 of each year. Handlers having more than
one (1) place of business shall hold a license for each location. Licenses shall
not be transferred.
Those that are exempt from licensing under KRS 260.550 are not exempt from
inspection, with the exception of consumers. The shell eggs or egg products
used by these persons are not exempt from the required assessment fee.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 40, sec. 4, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1980 Ky. Acts ch. 120, sec. 17, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1962 Ky.
Acts ch. 195, sec. 2. -- Amended 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 36, sec. 1. -- Created 1956
Ky. Acts ch. 121, sec. 7.
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