KRS 247.650: Commissioner to determine date, hours, polling places for voting and

details of assessment -- Limits -- Exceptions.

(1) With respect to any referendum conducted under the provisions of KRS 247.610 to

247.685, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall, b efore calling and announcing the

referendum, fix, determine, and publicly announce at least thirty (30) days before

the date determined for the referendum, the date, hours, and polling places for

voting in the referendum, the effective date of the assessme nt, if adopted, the

amount and basis of the assessment proposed to be collected, the means by which

the assessment shall be collected if authorized by the producers, and the general

purposes to which the amount collected shall be applied. No assessment lev ied

under the provisions of any single referendum shall exceed one dollar ($1) on each

bovine animal marketed in the state by any producer included in the group to which

the referendum was submitted or by any person subsequently becoming a new

producer in the area in which the referendum was held.

(2) No assessment shall be made on any bovine animal marketed in the state which

sells for ten dollars ($10) or less.

(3) Any assessment levied after June 25, 2013, shall be in addition to the federal

assessment referenced in KRS 247.652.