1.     a.    To receive a refund of any assessment paid in accordance with this chapter, a producer shall submit to the commission a written request for a refund application within sixty days after the date of the assessment or final settlement.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 4.1-13-18

  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37

b.    The producer shall complete the refund application and return the application to the commission, together with a record of the assessment collected within ninety days after the date of the assessment or final settlement. The commission then shall refund the net amount of the assessment that had been collected.

c.    If a request for a refund is not submitted to the commission within the prescribed time period, the producer is presumed to have agreed to the assessment.

2.    A producer is not entitled to a refund under this section unless the refundable amount meets or exceeds five dollars.

3.    Notwithstanding subsection 1, a member of the wheat commission is not eligible to receive a refund under this section.