1. A. There is hereby assessed a fee of three-fourths cent ($0.0075) per bushel upon all wheat marketed by wheat producers, as defined herein, in the State of Oklahoma and sold through commercial channels, beginning ninety (90) days after this act shall become effective. The fee is assessed and imposed on the producer at the time of sale or delivery, and shall be collected and remitted by the first purchaser to the Commission. Under the provisions of this act, no wheat shall be subject to a fee more than once. B. The Commission shall allocate twenty percent (20%) of the three-fourths cent ($0.0075) fee levied and collected pursuant to subsection A of this section to the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation for the purpose of conducting wheat research, including utilization and educational projects, minus the cost of collecting the fee, such cost not to exceed fifty percent (50%) of the total of the office rental and clerical costs, and the costs of supplies and postage and such cost to be prorated on the basis of eighty percent (80%) to the Commission and twenty percent (20%) to the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation. In order for the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation to qualify for the allocation of twenty percent (20%) of collected fees, the Oklahoma Wheat Commission shall appoint a member of the Wheat Commission to the Oklahoma Wheat Research Foundation board of directors.

Laws 1965, HB 508, c. 59, § 10, emerg. eff. April 7, 1965; Amended by Laws 1976, SB 644, c. 91, § 1, emerg. eff. May 6, 1976; Amended by Laws 1978, SB 496, c. 145, § 1, emerg. eff. April 5, 1978; Amended by Laws 1981, HB 1372, c. 298, § 6, emerg. eff. June 29, 1981.