Bill 305

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               305
Ratification Number:       47
Act Number                 31
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Assessment for boll weevil
                           eradication

(A31, R47, S305)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 46-10-130, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO BOLL WEEVIL ERADICATION, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT AN ASSESSMENT FOR ERADICATION FUNDS MUST BE IMPOSED ON COMMERCIAL COTTON GROWERS INSTEAD OF ON COMMERCIAL APPLICATORS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Assessment for boll weevil eradication

SECTION 1. Section 46-10-130 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 554 of 1988, is further amended to read:

"Section 46-10-130. Each commercial cotton grower in this State is assessed an annual uniform fee determined by the commission not to exceed eight dollars an acre subject to change as provided in Section 46-10-120. The assessment must be utilized by the commission to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The funds must be remitted promptly to the organization certified according to this chapter under terms and conditions the commission considers necessary to ensure that the assessments are used in a sound program of eradication or suppression of the boll weevil or other cotton pests. The certified organization shall provide to the division an annual audit of its accounts performed by a certified public accountant. The assessments collected by the commission under this chapter are not state funds."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.