(1) No warehouse or warehouseman or person acting on behalf of any warehouse or warehouseman shall discriminate against any grower of tobacco in any way, including but not limited to, the sale, transportation, or handling of tobacco. All tobacco growers shall be entitled to the exact same considerations as all other tobacco growers serviced by the same warehouse, except that a warehouseman may distinguish among different types of packaging in setting the fee or commission.
(2) Nothing in this section shall permit a warehouseman to discriminate in any way among growers marketing tobacco in the same kind of package.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 248.350

  • Grower: means a bona fide producer of tobacco, either by himself or by tenant, sharecropper or hired person. See Kentucky Statutes 248.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Warehouse: means any tobacco warehouse operating as a place of sale for tobacco in this state. See Kentucky Statutes 248.010
  • Warehouseman: means the owner, operator, manager, lessee or proprietor of a warehouse engaged in selling tobacco or his agents or employees. See Kentucky Statutes 248.010

(3) No tobacco warehouseman selling leaf tobacco in this state shall discriminate between purchasers as to charges, samples, warranty or otherwise, whether the purchasers are members of the tobacco exchange or not.
Effective: July 15, 1982
History: Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 95, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. — Amended
1978 Ky. Acts ch. 270, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 4813, 4814c-10.

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