§ 1280.310 - Assessments on domestic sheep and sheep products.

(a) Domestic sheep producers, sheep feeders, and exporters of live sheep and greasy wool will be assessed 1 cent per pound on live sheep sold and 2 cents per pound on greasy wool sold.

(b) Each person who processes or causes to be processed sheep or sheep products of that person's own production and markets the processed products will be assessed the equivalent of 1 cent per pound of live sheep sold or 2 cents per pound of greasy wool sold.

(c) If more than one producer, feeder, handler, or exporter shares the proceeds received for the sheep or sheep products sold, each such producer, feeder, handler, or exporter is obligated to pay that portion of the assessments that is equivalent to that producer's, feeder's, handler's, or exporter's proportionate share of the proceeds.

(d) Failure of the purchaser or collecting person to collect the assessment and pass along the assessment to the next purchaser, if necessary, and finally to the processor, as required in § 1280.313, shall not relieve the producer, feeder, or the collecting person of his or her obligation to pay the assessment to the feeder, collecting person, or processor and to remit the assessment to Board.