KRS 247.4481: Annual review of assessment program -- Termination by referendum --

Termination by request of certified operating agency.

(1) The board shall review the assessment program annually. If, at the end of each year

after the first year of the assessment p rogram, the board determines that twenty-five

percent (25%) of the producers are not participating in the program, the

Commissioner shall then conduct a referendum among the producers. If, upon the

referendum, a majority of the producers eligible to partic ipate and voting therein

reject the program, it shall be terminated as at the end of the month in which the

referendum was conducted and held; otherwise the assessment program shall

continue in force and effect.

(2) If the certified commission, council, bo ard, association, or other agency of

producers expresses in writing its desire to the Commissioner to discontinue the

assessment program and terminate the assessment, the Commissioner shall within

fifteen (15) days following receipt of the request convene the board to review and

act on the request. The board, after reviewing the request and conducting whatever

proceedings are deemed appropriate and necessary in connection with the request,

may terminate the program effective at the end of the month in which the board

action is taken; and in this event the Commissioner shall notify, by certified mail,

the purchasers of the agricultural commodity of the termination of the program.