§ 2-8-126 — Notice of Referendum; Maximum Assessment

When a referendum has been authorized as provided in Section 2-8-125, the certified organization shall, before calling and announcing the referendum, fix, determine, and publicly announce, at least 30 days before the date determined upon for the referendum, the date, hours, and polling places for voting in the referendum, the amount and basis of the assessment proposed to be collected, the means by which the assessment shall be collected if authorized by the growers, and the general purposes to which the amount collected shall be applied. Notice shall be published by the certified association through the medium of an established farm publication, and written notice shall be given to each county extension chairperson in the area covered by the referendum. No annual assessment levied under this article shall exceed three fourths of one percent of the value of the year’s production of such agricultural commodity grown by any farmer, producer, or grower included in the group to which the referendum is submitted.

Legislative History

(Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §7; Acts 1987, No. 87-595, p. 1034, §1; Act 2023-54, §1.)