§ 44-19-113. Implementation of Results — Imposition, Notice and Disposition of Assessment
Upon the approval of an assessment or a change in assessment in accordance with this chapter, the commissioner shall notify forthwith, by certified mail, all persons engaged either in the business of purchasing milk directly from producers or marketing milk in this state, either individually or on behalf of producers, that on and after the […]
§ 44-19-114. Tennessee Dairy Promotion Committee
A Tennessee dairy promotion committee shall be established, which shall consist of an odd number of members with no fewer than five (5) and no more than eleven (11) members. The commissioner shall be an ex officio member with nonvoting status. The committee shall be organized as a statewide committee appointed by the commissioner from […]
§ 44-19-115. Refund of Promotion Money
If and when the national program pursuant to the Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment Act of 1983 (Public Law 98-180) establishes a procedure for the return of promotion moneys to the producer, at the producer’s request, then and only then shall the Tennessee dairy promotion committee, upon written request of any producer, refund from the funds […]
§ 44-19-116. Deposits — Disbursements
Any moneys collected pursuant to this chapter shall not be state funds, and shall be deposited in a bank or other depository in this state, as from time to time determined by the Tennessee dairy promotion committee, allocated to the dairy industry promotion program under which they are collected, and disbursed by the committee only […]
§ 44-19-117. Investments — Use of Funds
The Tennessee dairy promotion committee may invest all assessments, gifts or grants that are collected or received by the committee. The committee may not use funds received, collected or accrued for any purpose other than program operations including the purposes designated for those funds in this chapter, and the reasonable costs or expenses necessary to […]
§ 44-19-105. Referendum on Assessment Authorized
Producers of milk and milk products on a commercial basis may, by referendum of producers held in accordance with this chapter, levy upon themselves an assessment on milk products for the purpose of financing or contributing to the financing of a program of promoting, advertising, researching and other methods designed to increase the consumption, use […]
§ 44-19-106. Petition for Assessment
Whenever the commissioner has received a petition signed by fifteen percent (15%) of the producers of milk in the state of Tennessee, the commissioner shall publish the filing of the petition through the medium of the public press in the state within fifteen (15) days of the receipt thereof. The petition shall include, but not […]
§ 44-19-107. Consideration and Certification of Petition
Upon the filing with the commissioner of a petition for referendum, the commissioner shall, within fifteen (15) days thereafter, convene the Tennessee dairy promotion committee, established by § 44-19-114, to consider the petition; and if upon such consideration the committee finds the petition for referendum to meet the requirements of this chapter, then, and in […]
§ 44-19-101. Short Title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Dairy Industry Promotion Act.”
§ 44-19-102. Legislative Declaration
It is declared that the general assembly finds that it is in the interest of the public welfare that Tennessee farmers who are producers of milk and milk products be permitted and encouraged to act jointly and in cooperation with other producers, handlers, dealers and processors of milk products in promoting and stimulating, by advertising, […]