(505 ILCS 95/14) (from Ch. 5, par. 1914)
Sec. 14.
A milk promotion program shall provide
for assessments against producers of the affected commodity to defray the
cost of the activities provided for in the milk promotion program.
Assessments authorized in a milk promotion program shall be based on
quantity of commodity marketed and shall be assessed against all
affected producers. The maximum assessment levied on the commodity of any
affected producer shall be not more than fifteen cents per hundred pounds
of milk produced and sold by that producer. After the first 5 years the
program is in
operations, 500 producers of milk by petition, with at least 10 signers of
such petitions from each of 10
counties, may request the Milk Promotion Board to or the Board of its own
volition may
hold a referendum to
increase the assessment rate provided the rate is not at the maximum
assessment rate at the time the request for the increase is made.
Any referendum to change the assessment shall be considered approved if a
majority of those producers voting in the referendum vote in favor thereof.
The Milk Promotion Board shall require the first purchaser of milk to
withhold and remit assessments to the Milk Promotion Board. A first
purchaser remitting the assessments for any producer shall deduct the
proper amount of assessments from any amount which he owes to such
producer. The Milk Promotion Board shall have the power to cause any duly
authorized agent or representative to enter upon the premises of any
purchaser of milk and examine or cause to be examined by such agent only
books, papers and records which deal in any way with respect to the payment
of the assessment or enforcement of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 84-830.)
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