Title 3.2, Title 3.2. Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food

A. The Soybean Board shall have charge of the management and expenditure of the Virginia Soybean Fund established in the state treasury. B. The Soybean Board may expend funds to provide for programs of research, education, publicity, and the promotion of the sale and use of soybe…

Every five years from the date of the imposition of the tax assessment on soybeans, another referendum shall be held to determine whether the assessment for research, education, publicity, and promotion of the sale and use of soybeans shall be continued. The Board, upon petition …

A. The Commissioner shall arrange for and manage any referendum conducted under this chapter. B. The Commissioner shall, 60 days before the date upon which a referendum is to be held, mail notice to the clerk of the circuit court in each locality where soybeans are produced. The …

The question to be printed on the ballots used in a referendum held pursuant to this chapter shall be as follows: "Do you favor additional research, education, publicity and the promotion of the sale and use of soybeans and the continuation of the levy of an assessment at a rate …

Each producer who sold soybeans during the past three years next preceding the date of the referendum held pursuant to this chapter shall be eligible to vote in such referendum, provided that he shall so certify on forms that shall be prepared by the Board. Any person meeting suc…

If the Governor finds any referendum in order and that at least 60 percent of those voting are in opposition to the continuation of the assessment on soybeans, he shall so proclaim and upon such proclamation the assessment on soybeans will be discontinued. If the Governor finds t…

The following production areas are designated for the purposes of this chapter: Area I: Accomack and Northampton Counties; Area II: Stafford, King George, Westmoreland, Northumberland, Richmond, and Lancaster Counties; Area III: Spotsylvania, Caroline, Essex, Middlesex, Mathews, …

There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Virginia Soybean Fund, hereafter referred to as "the Fund." The Fund shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. All moneys levied and collected under the provisions of this cha…

A. Every handler shall deduct from payments made to the producer for soybeans an assessment at a rate of one half of one percent of the net market price per bushel and shall remit such assessment to the Tax Commissioner pursuant to this chapter. The handler shall also deduct from…

The handler shall keep a complete record of the soybeans handled by him for a period of not less than three years from the time the soybeans were handled. Such records shall be open to the inspection of the Tax Commissioner and shall be established and maintained as required by t…

It is a Class 1 misdemeanor: 1. For any handler knowingly to report falsely to the Tax Commissioner the quantity of soybeans handled by him during any period. 2. For any handler to falsify the records of the soybeans handled by him. 3. For any handler to fail to preserve the reco…