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TN Code § 43-19-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-214. Fees and Commissions of Warehousemen

 The compensation of warehouse keepers for receiving, storing, inspecting, coopering, and selling tobacco shall be as follows, to wit:   To be paid by the seller, two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50), and one percent (1%) commission on proceeds of sale;   To be paid by buyer, one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50), and for storage after sale, after the first thirty (30) days, for each month or part of a month, twenty-five cents (25¢).
TN Code § 43-19-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-215. Extortion a Misdemeanor

 Any warehouse keeper who charges more than is allowed in § 43-19-214 commits a Class C misdemeanor, and is also liable to a penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) to the planter or person overcharged, recoverable before any judge of a court of general sessions.
TN Code § 43-19-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-216. Auction Bid May Be Refused

 Any planter, or other owner of tobacco sold at auction, may, by paying the fees, refuse at the time to take the price at which it is cried off.
TN Code § 43-19-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-217. Warehouseman's Lien for Fees and Charges

 A lien is given to the proprietor of the warehouse on all tobacco and proceeds for fees and charges on the tobacco and proceeds.
TN Code § 43-19-218 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-218. Selling or Shipping Without Inspection Not Prohibited

 No planter or person is prohibited from selling tobacco at private sale, with or without inspection, if such person chooses so to do, nor compelled to have tobacco, though stored in a public or authorized warehouse, inspected; but the person may sell or ship it without inspection.
TN Code § 43-19-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 3 - Sale of Tobacco|§ 43-19-301. Commissioner of Agriculture to Enforce Rules and Regulations

 The commissioner of agriculture is vested with the power and authority and is charged with the duty of administering and enforcing this part, and has the authority to establish and enforce reasonable rules and regulations not inconsistent with this part, for the purpose of carrying out this part.
TN Code § 43-19-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 3 - Sale of Tobacco|§ 43-19-302. Commingling of Tobacco Forbidden

  It is unlawful for any person to commingle, mix, place on same basket with other tobacco or in any other manner or means to handle tobacco so as to lose its identity, for the purpose of sale at auction, any looseleaf tobacco grown by one (1) producer with looseleaf burley tobacco grown by any other producer, or with that of the same producer after being placed on the looseleaf floor.   After tobacco is weighed and set upon the warehouse floor for sale, no basket of tobacco shall be moved, without the consent of the owner, from its place on the floor until sale is confirmed by the owner of the tobacco.
TN Code § 43-19-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 3 - Sale of Tobacco|§ 43-19-303. Sales of Burley Tobacco Regulated

 Sales of burley tobacco at warehouse or loosefloors shall be conducted so as to conform to one (1) of the following methods:   Sales to be at the rate of not more than ninety-seven thousand two hundred pounds (97,200 lbs.) per hour, per set of buyers; or   Sales to be at the rate of not more than three hundred sixty (360) baskets per hour, per set of buyers.
TN Code § 43-19-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 3 - Sale of Tobacco|§ 43-19-304. Warehouseman's Record to Be Accurately Maintained

 Any information pertaining to weights of tobacco sold, prices paid or amounts of tobacco handled, disseminated by any warehouseman, or a warehouseman's employees or agents shall be accurate and substantiated by records kept at the warehouse or loosefloor.
TN Code § 43-19-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 3 - Sale of Tobacco|§ 43-19-305. Penalty for Violation

 A violation of this part or the rules and regulations promulgated under this part is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-20-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-20-101. Purpose

 The purpose of this part is to promote the growth and development of the soybean industry in Tennessee by research, advertisement, promotions and education and market development, thereby promoting the general welfare of the people of this state.
TN Code § 43-20-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-20-102. Board — Composition — Appointment — Terms — Bond of Officers — Meetings — Rules and Regulations — Compensation

  The Tennessee soybean promotion board, referred to in this chapter as the board, is created, to be composed of nine (9) members to be appointed by the commissioner of agriculture to serve for terms of three (3) years, as provided in this section. All of the nine (9) members of the board shall be producers of soybeans in the state of Tennessee. Within ten (10) days following July 1, 1977, the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, the Tennessee Farmers Cooperative, and the Tennessee Soybean Association shall each submit the names of six (6) soybean producers to the commissioner, and the commissioner shall appoint three (3) members from the nominees of each organization to serve on the board on rotating three-year terms. The original board shall be appointed with members of each of the organizations appointed as follows: one (1) for one (1) year, one (1) for two (2) years and one (1) for three (3) years. Each year thereafter, not less than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of board members' terms, each organization shall submit the names of three (3) nominees to the commissioner, and succeeding boards shall be appointed by the commissioner in the same manner, giving equal representation to each organization. Vacancies that occur shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointments were made. Persons who are appointed to the board shall serve no more than two (2) consecutive terms. The commissioner or a designee from the commissioner's staff shall serve as an advisor to the board.   The members of the board shall meet and organize within thirty (30) days of their appointment, and shall elect a chair, vice chair and secretary-treasurer from the membership of the board, each to serve for one-year terms, whose duties shall be those customarily exercised by such officers or specifically designated by the board. The chair, vice chair and secretary-treasurer shall be bonded in an amount of not less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). The cost of the bonds shall be paid from the funds received under this part. The bond shall be a security for any unlawful act of such member of the board, and recovery on the bond may be had by the state for any injury by such unlawful act of the member. The board may establish rules and regulations for its own government and the administration of the affairs of the board.   Members of the board shall not be compensated but shall be reimbursed travel expenses in accordance with the travel regulations promulgated by the commissioner of finance and administration and approved by the attorney general and reporter.
TN Code § 43-20-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-20-104. Failure of Purchaser to File Report or Pay Assessment — Violations — Penalties

  Any purchaser who fails to file a report or to pay any assessment within the time required by the department shall forfeit to the department a penalty of five percent (5%) of the assessment determined to be due, plus one percent (1%) of that amount for each month of delay or fraction thereof after the first month after the report was required to be filed or the assessment became due. The penalty shall be paid over to the board and shall be disposed of by it in the same manner as funds derived from the payment of the assessment imposed.   The department shall collect the penalties levied in this section, together with the delinquent assessment, by either of the following methods:  By voluntary payment by the person liable; and   By legal proceedings instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction.     Any person required to pay the assessment provided for in this part who fails to remit the same or who refuses to allow full inspection of the premises, or books, records or other documents relating to the liability of the person for the assessment imposed in this part, or who shall hinder or in any way delay or prevent an inspection, commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-20-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-20-105. Funds Used for Research and Promotion — Political Use of Funds Prohibited — Reports

  The board shall plan and conduct a program of productive research, education, market development and advertising designed to promote the soybean industry in Tennessee, and is authorized to use the funds derived from the assessment imposed in this part for those purposes, including basic administrative expenses of the plan. The board may also, in its discretion, expend money from the Tennessee soybean promotion fund outside the state of Tennessee for such purposes as national and international research and promotional applications.   Funds may be expended only for the purposes set out in this part and shall not be spent in any manner for political purposes. A report of all expenditures shall be made annually, with four (4) copies of the report to be filed with each of the following: the department of agriculture, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, the chief clerk of the senate and the state library and archives.
TN Code § 43-20-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-20-106. Exemptions From Part

 This part does not apply to any person who purchases one thousand (1,000) or fewer bushels of soybeans in any calendar year; provided, that the person is not regularly engaged in the purchase of soybeans.
TN Code § 43-20-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-201. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Soybean Promotion Act.”
TN Code § 43-20-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-202. Legislative Findings

 The general assembly finds that it is in the interest of the public welfare that Tennessee farmers who are producers of soybeans be encouraged and permitted to act jointly and in cooperation with other producers to levy upon themselves an assessment upon soybeans, for the purpose of financing programs of research, promotion, advertising and other programs designed to increase the production of soybeans and to increase the consumption, use and sale of soybeans and soybean products in Tennessee, national and international markets.
TN Code § 43-20-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-203. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Board” means the Tennessee soybean promotion board established by § 43-20-102;   “Commissioner” means the commissioner of agriculture;   “Department” means the department of agriculture;   “Producer” means a person who produces soybeans as an ongoing commercial operation and includes any landowner who shares in the production costs or the proceeds of the sale of any soybeans that are grown on the landowner's land; and   “Purchaser” means any person, public or private corporation, federal commodity credit corporation, association or partnership, buying, accepting shipment or otherwise accepting the property, in or to soybeans from a producer, and includes a mortgagee, pledgee, lienor, or other person, public or private, having a claim against the producer when the actual or constructive possession of the soybeans is taken as part payment or in satisfaction of the mortgage, pledge, lien, or claim.
TN Code § 43-20-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-204. Legality of Associations, Meetings or Actions — Restraint of Trade

 No association, meeting or act undertaken pursuant to this part and intended to benefit the producers and purchasers of soybeans is illegal or in restraint of trade.
TN Code § 43-20-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-205. Assessment on Producers — Application for Referendum

 Any commission, council, board or other entity that is fairly representative of soybean producers may make application to the commissioner requesting a referendum of producers of soybeans upon the question of whether an assessment of a specified amount should be levied, collected and disbursed under this part, or whether a prior assessment should be amended or terminated. The application shall state the amount of the assessment per bushel that is to be proposed in the referendum, and a brief statement of the purposes for which the funds collected will be spent.
TN Code § 43-20-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-206. Date of Referendum — Notice

 Within thirty (30) days of receipt of an application requesting a referendum, the commissioner shall set a date for the referendum, which shall not be more than sixty (60) days after receipt of the application, and shall publish by newspaper, the date of the referendum, the polling places and the hours they will be open, the amount of the proposed assessment, and the date the assessment shall begin, if adopted.
TN Code § 43-20-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-207. Referendum

  Any referendum held under this part shall be conducted statewide, under the control and direction of the commissioner. The polling place in each county shall be the offices of the University of Tennessee agricultural extension office. All ballots shall be provided at the polling places.   Each person seeking to vote in the referendum shall be required to sign an affidavit stating that the person is a producer as defined in § 43-20-203. Upon signing an affidavit, the person shall be eligible to vote. Any producer that is a corporation shall have only one (1) vote.   The question to be decided at the first referendum shall be in the following form:  “Shall the producers of soybeans assess themselves at the rate of  cents per bushel of soybeans sold, and use the funds so collected by the department of agriculture and paid over to the Tennessee soybean promotion board to finance a program of research, education, market development, marketing, advertising and other methods designed to promote the increased production, consumption, use and sale of soybeans and soybean products?”    The affirmative vote of a majority of the number of votes cast shall adopt the proposed assessment.   Within ten (10) days after the referendum, the commissioner shall canvass the votes and publicly announce the result of the referendum.   The expenses of referenda held under this part shall be paid by the department until an assessment is levied. Expenses of subsequent referenda shall be paid from the Tennessee soybean promotion fund.   No referendum pursuant to this part shall be held within one (1) year of any preceding referendum.
TN Code § 43-20-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-208. Deductions

 The assessed rate, as approved by referendum, shall be deducted by the purchaser from the amount paid the producer at the first point of sale. Within twenty (20) days after the end of each calendar month, each purchaser shall remit to the board the total amount of funds withheld from producers.
TN Code § 43-20-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-209. Records of Purchasers

 Each purchaser shall keep a complete and accurate record of all soybeans handled by that purchaser and shall furnish each producer with a signed sales slip showing the number of bushels purchased from that producer and the amount deducted by the purchaser for the Tennessee soybean promotion fund. Such records shall be kept for two (2) years and be open to inspection at any time with or without notice by the commissioner, the board or its representatives. The board may, from time to time, require any purchaser to submit records and reports deemed necessary for the collection of the assessment.
TN Code § 43-20-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-210. Applications for Refunds — Refund Forms

  Within ninety (90) days of an assessment being withheld by the purchaser, any producer may make application, on forms to be prescribed by the board, to the board for a refund of assessments withheld. The application shall be accompanied by copies of sales slips signed by the purchaser evidencing the withheld assessments for which refund is sought.   Refund forms shall be made available in each University of Tennessee county extension office, and shall be displayed and made available to producers at those locations.
TN Code § 43-20-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-211. Referendum on Assessment Remaining in Effect

 If the commissioner determines that during the first two (2) years the assessment is in effect that over fifty percent (50%) of the proceeds generated by the assessment is being refunded, then the commissioner shall conduct a referendum, within one hundred twenty (120) days of the end of the two-year period, on whether the assessment shall remain in effect.
TN Code § 43-20-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-212. Use of Funds — Prohibited Use of Funds — Minutes — Reports

  The board shall expend the proceeds of the assessment solely to finance a program of research, education, market development, marketing, advertising and other methods designed to promote the increased consumption, production, use and sale of soybean and soybean products. The board may accept gifts and grants, and shall invest its idle funds.   The board shall not expend its funds in any manner for political purposes, or to influence any rule-making process, either state or federal. The board shall submit the minutes of all meetings and an annual detailed financial statement to the commissioner, the clerk of the house of representatives, the clerk of the senate and the state library and archives. The annual report shall include, but not be limited to, a list of all grantees of funds and a status report of all grants, indicating utilization of grant funds in compliance with this section.
TN Code § 43-20-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-213. Personal Debt of Purchaser — Late Payment Penalty

 Any amount withheld, or that should have been withheld, by the purchaser due to the assessment shall be a personal debt of the purchaser. If the purchaser's monthly payments to the board are not timely made, a penalty of ten percent (10%) of the amount due shall be imposed. The board is authorized to collect assessments due by any legal proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction.
TN Code § 43-20-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-214. Waiver of Assessment

 Upon the effective date of an assessment levied pursuant to this part, the commissioner may waive the assessment imposed in § 43-20-103(a). It is the express intent of the general assembly that only one (1) assessment for the promotion of soybeans be in effect at any time.
TN Code § 43-20-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-215. Rules and Regulations

 The commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to provide for the implementation of this part.
TN Code § 43-20-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 20 - Soybean Promotion|Part 2 - Soybean Promotion Act|§ 43-20-216. Agreements for Collection of Assessments or Collateral

 The board may enter into an agreement with the federal commodity credit corporation to collect the specified assessment on all soybeans pledged as collateral for a commodity credit corporation price support loan or purchased by the commodity credit corporation under its loan or its purchase programs.
TN Code § 43-21-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 21 - Fairs|Part 1 - State Aid|§ 43-21-101. Disbursement of State Aid Grants by Commissioner

 All grants of state aid to agricultural fairs by appropriation of the general assembly shall be disbursed by the commissioner of agriculture according to this chapter.
TN Code § 43-21-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 21 - Fairs|Part 1 - State Aid|§ 43-21-102. Fairs Eligible for State Aid Grants — Use of Funds — Forfeiture of Privilege

 The commissioner of agriculture, for the purpose of fostering and developing agriculture within the state of Tennessee, is authorized to pay state aid from the grants made by the general assembly for such purposes to nonprofit agricultural shows held for the purpose of advancing agriculture. Fairs that receive state aid shall use their profits for future fair improvements, increasing their premium lists, and furthering the growth, expansion, and usefulness of fairs in every way possible, and to provide for a possible deficit at some future fair. Whenever a fair converts its profits into the treasury of a county, or pays dividends to stockholders, it forfeits its privilege of sharing in state aid.