North Carolina General Statutes
Article 50 - Promotion of Use and Sale of Agricultural Products.
§ 106-562 - Regulations as to referendum; notice to farm organizations and county agents.

106-562. Regulations as to referendum; notice to farm organizations and county agents.
The hours, voting places, rules and regulations and the area within which such referendum herein authorized with respect to any of the agricultural commodities herein referred to shall be established and determined by the agency of the commercial growers and producers of such agricultural commodity duly certified by the Board of Agriculture as hereinbefore provided; the said referendum date, area, hours, voting places, rules and regulations with respect to the holding of such referendum shall be published by such agency conducting the same through the medium of the public press in the State of North Carolina at least 30 days before the holding of such referendum, and direct written notice thereof shall likewise be given to all farm organizations within the State of North Carolina and to each county agent in any county in which such agricultural product is grown. Such notice shall likewise contain a statement of the amount of annual assessment proposed to be levied - which assessment in any event shall not exceed one half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) of the value of the year's production of such agricultural commodity or such other assessment as shall be authorized by law, grown by any farmer, producer or grower included in the group to which such referendum is submitted - and shall likewise state the method by which such assessment shall be collected and how the proceeds thereof shall be administered and the purposes to which the same shall be applied, which purposes shall be in keeping with the provisions of this Article. (1947, c. 1018, s. 13; 1967, c. 774, s. 2; 1983, c. 246, s. 2.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 106 - Agriculture

Article 50 - Promotion of Use and Sale of Agricultural Products.

§ 106-550 - Policy as to promotion of use of, and markets for, farm products; official marketing campaign.

§ 106-551 - Federal Agricultural Marketing Act.

§ 106-552 - Associations, activity, etc., deemed not in restraint of trade.

§ 106-553 - Policy as to referenda, assessments, etc., for promoting use and sale of farm products.

§ 106-554 - Application to Board of Agriculture for authorization of referendum.

§ 106-555 - Action by Board on application.

§ 106-555.1 - Official State board for federal assessment programs; no subsequent referenda required.

§ 106-556 - Conduct of referendum among growers and producers on question of assessments.

§ 106-557 - Notice of referendum; statement of amount, basis and purpose of assessment; maximum assessment.

§ 106-557.1 - Ballot by mail.

§ 106-558 - Management of referendum; expenses.

§ 106-559 - Basis of referendum; eligibility for participation; question submitted; special provisions for North Carolina Cotton Promotion Association.

§ 106-559.1 - Basis of vote on milk product assessment.

§ 106-560 - Effect of more than one-third vote against assessment.

§ 106-561 - Effect of two-thirds vote for assessment.

§ 106-562 - Regulations as to referendum; notice to farm organizations and county agents.

§ 106-563 - Distribution of ballots; arrangements for holding referendum; declaration of results.

§ 106-563.1 - Supervision of referendum on milk product assessment.

§ 106-564 - Collection of assessments; custody and use of funds.

§ 106-564.1 - Alternate method for collection of assessments.

§ 106-564.2 - Further alternative method for collection of assessments.

§ 106-564.3 - Alternative method for collection of assessments relating to cattle.

§ 106-564.4 - Alternative method for collection of assessments relating to sweet potatoes.

§ 106-565 - Subsequent referendum.

§ 106-566 - Referendum as to continuance of assessments approved at prior referendum.

§ 106-567 - Rights of farmers dissatisfied with assessments; time for demanding refund.

§ 106-567.1 - Refund of milk product assessments.

§ 106-568 - Publication of financial statement by treasurer of agency; bond required.