Section 36-21-19 - Equine processing assessment - Continuing appropriation - Provision of grants1. For each equine processed at an equine processing facility in this state, the owner of the facility shall remit to the agriculture commissioner, at the time and in the manner directed by the commissioner, an assessment in the amount of five dollars. The commissioner shall forward the assessment to the state treasurer for deposit of the first fifty thousand dollars in the state general fund and any additional amount in the equine processing fund.2. All moneys in the equine processing fund are appropriated on a continuing basis to the agriculture commissioner to be used to:a. Provide an annual grant equaling forty percent of any assessments collected to Dickinson state university in support of the equine management program;b. Provide an annual grant equaling forty percent of any assessments collected to North Dakota state university in support of the equine studies program; andc. Provide an annual grant equaling twenty percent of any assessments collected to public or private entities conducting equine research or offering hippotherapy to individuals with disabilities.Amended by S.L. 2017, ch. 68 (SB 2028),§ 17, eff. 7/1/2017.