KRS 247.493: On approval, notice to be given milk purchasers as to deduction required -

- Disposition of collections.

In the event a majority of the producers eligible for participation in such referendum and

voting therein shall vote in favor of such assessment, then, upon the written request of the

duly certified commission, council, board, association or other agency of producers of

such agricultural commodity, the Commissioner shall notify forthwith, by certified mail,

all persons engaged in the business of purc hasing such agricultural commodities in this

state, that on and after the date specified in such letter, the specified assessment shall be

deducted from the producer's payment by the purchaser, or his agent or representative,

from the purchase price of suc h agricultural commodity. The assessment so deducted

shall, on or before the fifteenth day of the month following the end of the month in which

such commodity is sold to the purchaser, be remitted by such purchaser to the duly

certified commission, council, board, association or other agency of the producers entitled

thereto. Such funds, including donations from individuals, concerns, corporations and

grants from the state or governmental agencies, shall be used for the purpose of

promoting and stimulating, by advertising, research and other methods, the increased use

and sale, domestic and foreign, of such agricultural commodity. The books and records of

all such purchasers of such agricultural commodity shall at all times during regular

business hours be o pen for inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture or his duly

authorized agents.