KRS 247.483: Rules governing holding of referendum prescribed by Commissioner --

Notice -- Limit on assessment.

The hours, voting places, rules and regulations and the area within which such

referendum herein authorized with respect to such agricultural commodity herein referred

to shall be established and determined by the Commissioner of Agriculture; the said

referendum date, area, hours, voting places, rules and regulations with respect to the

holding of such referendum shall be published by the Commissioner con ducting the same

through the medium of the public press in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at least thirty

(30) days before the holding of such referendum, and direct written notice thereof shall

likewise be given to each county or area agent, in any county i n which such agricultural

product is produced. Such notice shall likewise contain a statement of the amount of the

assessment proposed to be levied, which assessment in any event shall not exceed one

and one -half percent (1.5%) of the value of the year's p roduction of such agricultural

commodity grown by the producer included in the group to which such referendum is

submitted, and shall likewise state the method by which such assessment shall be

collected and how the proceeds thereof shall be administered a nd the purposes to which

the same shall be applied, which purposes shall be in keeping with the provisions of KRS

247.450 to 247.505.