(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, fix, determine, and publicly announce at least thirty (30) days before the date determined for the referendum, the date, hours, and polling places for voting in the referendum, the effective date of the assessment, if adopted, the amount and basis of the assessment proposed to be collected, the means by which the assessment shall be collected if authorized by the producers, and the general purposes to which any amount collected shall be applied.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 247.7912

  • Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Commissioner: means Commissioner of Agriculture. See Kentucky Statutes 247.010
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(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 towards the financing of a program of research, market development, and education to increase the domestic and foreign consumption, use, sale, and markets for 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) worth of sales on porcine animals marketed in the state by any producer included in the group to which the referendum was submitted or by any person subsequently becoming a new producer in the area in which the referendum was held.
Effective: July 13, 2004
History: Created 2004 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 7, effective July 13, 2004.