Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§6415 Amendments

Title 7 › Chapter 93— PROCESSOR-FUNDED MILK PROMOTION PROGRAM › § 6415

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Secretary can change the order and can hold a referendum anytime to adjust the assessment rate for fluid milk processors. The Secretary must hold a referendum if the Board or a group that together sold at least 10% of total fluid milk volume in a Secretary-set period asks for one. A rate change only happens if at least 50% of voting processors approve and those voters represent at least 60% of the volume in that period. The new rate starts on a date the Secretary sets but no later than 30 days after the vote. Rules in section 6413(c) and (d) also apply.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §6415

Agriculture — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary may issue such amendments to an order as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.

(b)(1)The Secretary may conduct at any time a referendum of persons who, during a representative period as determined by the Secretary, have been fluid milk processors on adjusting the assessment rate under the order issued under this chapter then in effect, and shall hold such a referendum on request of the Board or any group of such processors that among them marketed during a representative period, as determined by the Secretary, 10 percent or more of the volume of fluid milk products marketed by all processors.

(2)The Secretary shall adjust the assessment rate under the order whenever the Secretary determines that the adjustment is favored—

(A)by at least 50 percent of fluid milk processors voting in the referendum; and

(B)by fluid milk processors that marketed during a representative period, as determined by the Secretary, 60 percent or more of the volume of fluid milk products marketed by all processors;

(3)The adjusted assessment rate shall be effective on a date, as determined by the Secretary, after the results of the referendum are known, but not later than 30 days after the referendum.

(4)Subsections (c) and (d) of section 6413 of this title shall apply to a referendum conducted under this subsection.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 6415

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60