KRS 247.4475: Assessment to be levied and collected by agency conducting referendum.

(1) If, in the referendum called under the provisions of KRS 247.4451 to 247.4483, a

majority of the producers eligible to participate and voting therein, shall vote in the

affirmative and in favor of the levying and collection of the assessment proposed i n

the referendum on the agricultural commodity, then the assessment shall be

collected in the manner determined and announced by the agency conducting the

referendum.

(2) Any agricultural cooperative association organized under KRS Chapter 272 or

272A, any foreign agricultural cooperative association, or any foreign limited

cooperative association that has received a certificate of authority to conduct

business in the Commonwealth in the same manner as a domestic agricultural

cooperative association, on application to an approval by the Commissioner, may by

an alternate procedure, not in conflict with the purposes of KRS 247.4451 to

247.4483, handle the collection and disbursement of the assessments of its

members. The purchaser of the agricultural commodity of the members of the

association shall be relieved of the collecting and reporting requirements of KRS

247.4477 with respect to the members.