181.19A Continuance referendum.
1. The secretary shall, upon the petition of producers, conduct a continuance referendum to determine whether a state assessment should be renewed. The secretary must receive the petition not less than one hundred fifty and not more than two hundred forty days before the four-year anniversary of a state assessment’s effective date. The petition must be signed within that period by a number of producers equal to or greater than two percent of the number of producers in this state reported in the most recent United States census of agriculture, requesting a referendum to determine whether to continue the state assessment. The referendum shall be conducted not earlier than thirty days before the four-year anniversary date of the state assessment.
2. If the secretary determines that a continuance referendum has passed, the state assessment shall continue in effect for four additional years from the anniversary of its effective date.
3. If the secretary determines that the referendum has not passed, the secretary and the executive committee shall terminate the assessment in an orderly manner as soon as practicable after the determination. Another referendum shall not be held for at least one hundred eighty days from the date that the assessment is terminated.
4. If no valid petition for a continuance referendum is received by the secretary within the time period provided in this section, the state assessment shall continue in effect for four additional years from the anniversary of its effective date.
2004 Acts, ch 1037, §16, 19; 2016 Acts, ch 1043, §17, 21
Referred to in §181.13, 181.15
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 181 - BEEF CATTLE PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION
Section 181.1A - Recognition of organization.
Section 181.2 - Duties and objects of association.
Section 181.3 - Executive committee — creation and operation.
Section 181.4 - Executive committee — employees.
Section 181.5 - Expenses of officers.
Section 181.6A - Executive committee — election.
Section 181.7 - Executive committee — research and education programs.
Section 181.8 - Executive committee — entering premises — examining records.
Section 181.11 - Collection of state assessment.
Section 181.12 - Remission of state assessment on application.
Section 181.13 - Administration of moneys originating from state assessment — appropriation.
Section 181.15 - Referendum — procedures.
Section 181.16 - Moneys remaining in fund.
Section 181.17 - Executive committee — election — voting by nonmember producers.
Section 181.18A - Not a state agency.
Section 181.19 - Initial and special referendums.