KRS 247.490: Affirmative vote, effect -- Domestic and foreign associations.

(1) If, in such referendum called under the provisions of KRS 247.450 to 247.505, a

majority of the producers in the area in which such referendum is conducted,

eligible to participate and voting therein, shall vote in the affirmative and in favor of

the levying and collection of such assessment proposed in such referendum on such

agricultural commodity, then such assessment shall be collected in the manner

determined and announced by the agency conducting such referendum.

(2) Any agricultural cooperative assoc iation 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 do mestic agricultural

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

by an alternate procedure, not in conflict with the purposes of KRS 247.450 to

247.505, handle the collection and disbursement of the assessments of its me mbers.

The purchaser of the agricultural commodity of the members of such association

shall be relieved of the collecting and reporting requirements of KRS 247.493 with

respect to such members.