Current through Register Vol. 48, 12, December 27, 2024
Section 5-41 - AssessmentsA. Rate--An annual assessment of five cents per bushel shall be paid by producers and collected by the Commission with the assistance of the Board on commercial quantities of all fresh and cured sweet potatoes produced within the State of South Carolina that are sold and two cents per hundred pounds shall be paid by producers and collected by the Commission on commercial quantities of sweet potatoes produced within the State of South Carolina and sold for processing.B. Collection--Assessments shall be collected from producers by the first buyer of the sweet potatoes, and such first buyer shall deduct the full amount of assessment from the total monies due the producer and shall remit to the Commission on a monthly basis on or before the last business day of the month immediately succeeding the month of collection.C. A producer who by virtue of his activities or circumstances shall be within the meaning of the term "first buyer" or "handler," or who shall sell, ship, or otherwise dispose of sweet potatoes to a buyer or other person or store sweet potatoes outside the jurisdiction of Marketing Order No. 2, shall remit to the Commission the full amount of assessment due.D. To collect such assessments on fresh or cured sweet potatoes, the Commission and/or the Board may issue "South Carolina Sweet Potato Marketing Stamps" and require that these be fixed or attached to the containers, invoices, receipts, inspection certificates or tickets, such stamps shall be cancelled immediately upon being attached.E. All buyers, handlers, processors, storage warehouse operators, and others affected shall be supplied by the Commission and/or the Board with proper forms for making the necessary reports of collection of assessments. The name and address of each producer from whom sweet potatoes were purchased, stored, or otherwise handled, including the total amount of assessment collected and the number of bushels or pounds of sweet potatoes handled, stored or processed must be reported to the Commission.F. Exemptions--No assessments shall be collected on the following: 1. Sweet potatoes of a producer's own production used by him on his own premises for seed or personal consumption.2. Sweet potatoes donated or shipped for relief or charitable purposes.3. Sweet potatoes from producers marketing less than commercial quantities, being sales or marketing of sweet potatoes with a value of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or less during the course of the most recently completed full market season.5. Sweet potatoes sold by producers from his own production through roadside stands or other retail selling.6. Sweet potatoes sold for seed purposes only.G. Certification of Exemption--"First buyers," handlers, processors and distributors of sweet potatoes produced in South Carolina will ask any producer offering sweet potatoes to any of the above for sale who claims he qualifies for any exemption under said order to certify to such exemption on forms furnished said handlers by the Commission.