Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-18-308: Promotional fee - Assessment and allocation

A. The Oklahoma Wheat Commission shall assess a fee upon all

wheat marketed by wheat producers in this state and sold through

commercial channels. The fee is assessed and imposed on the

producer at the time of sale or delivery, and shall be collected and

remitted by the first purchaser to the Oklahoma Wheat Commission.

Under the provisions of the Oklahoma Wheat Resources Act, no wheat

shall be subject to a fee more than once.

B. The Commission shall allocate twenty percent (20%) of the

fee levied and collected pursuant to subsection A of this section to

the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation for the purpose of conducting

wheat research, including, but not limited to, utilization and

educational projects, less the cost of collecting the fee, such cost

not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the total of the office rental

and clerical costs, and the costs of supplies and postage and such

cost to be prorated on the basis of eighty percent (80%) to the

Commission and twenty percent (20%) to the Oklahoma Wheat Research

Foundation.

C. In order for the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation to

qualify for the allocation of twenty percent (20%) of collected

fees, the Commission shall appoint a member of the Oklahoma Wheat

Commission to the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation board of

directors.

D. Any unexpended balance contained in the revolving fund

designated for the Wheat Utilization, Research and Market

Development Commission as of November 1, 2016, shall be transferred

and deposited to the credit of the General Revenue Fund of the State

Treasury.