CHAPTER 210

(SB 135)

Promotional fee on wheat increased.

         ENTITLED, An Act to  increase the promotional fee on wheat.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:

     Section  1.  That § 38-10-22 be amended to read as follows:

     38-10-22.   There is hereby assessed a promotional fee of one cent and one-half cents per bushel upon all wheat harvested in the State of South Dakota and sold through commercial channels in the State of South Dakota . The fee is assessed and imposed on the grower at the time of sale or delivery, and shall be collected and remitted by the first purchaser in the manner described by the commission pursuant to administrative rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 1-26. No wheat may be subject to the fee more than once.

     Signed March 2, 2005

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