Section 144.06. Assessments.

 

(1)  Affected producers shall be liable for an assessment of 10¢ per hundredweight on all milk sold to or marketed by a handler. Hundredweight shall be determined on the basis of scale weights, bulk tank measurements by licensed weighers and samplers, milk statements, or a combination of the above.

(2)  Assessments shall be deducted by handlers from amounts due affected producers and shall become due to the marketing board at the time title to the milk is transferred from affected producers to handlers.

(3)  When milk is sold by affected producers to non-resident handlers, affected producers shall be deemed to be producer-handlers, as defined in s. ATCP 144.01 (7) , acting on their own behalf and assessments shall be due to the marketing board at the time title is taken by the non-resident handler. Producer-handlers shall maintain records, file reports and remit assessments due on their own milk to the marketing board in accordance with procedures under this chapter.

(4)  Assessments shall be payable monthly to the marketing board on the date final settlement is made to affected producers for milk sold during the preceding month and in accordance with procedures specified by the marketing board.

(5)  Producers processing or selling their own milk directly to consumers shall be liable for payment of assessments. Assessments due from affected producers selling milk directly to consumers shall be payable quarterly to the marketing board and a report filed at the time the assessments are payable, in accordance with procedures specified by the marketing board.

(6)  The marketing board, or the secretary, shall have the authority to audit financial and other records of handlers, producers or their agents pertaining to assessments and to ensure compliance with this section.

History: Cr. Register, June, 1983, No. 330 , eff. 7-1-83; am. (1), Register, July, 1991, No. 427 , eff. 8-1-91.