Administrative Rules of the State of Montana

(1) A new eligible producer is entitled to receive the quota price for milk sales to a pool plant for each month in accordance with the following schedule:

MONTHS

PERCENTAGE OF MILK SALES

ASSIGNED TO QUOTA

April through August

20%

All other months

35%

(a) To be eligible for this assignment, the new eligible producer cannot own any quota in the first month of production.

(b) This assignment is not an assignment of actual quota to such new eligible producer.

(2) When the new eligible producer acquires quota by purchase or otherwise, or acquires quota pursuant to ARM 32.24.505, the percentage of milk sales assigned to quota price under this rule must be decreased accordingly so that the total quota equals the applicable percentage in (1).

(a) A producer who acquires quota by purchase or otherwise which exceeds the applicable percentage in (1) is not eligible to receive an assignment of quota pursuant to this rule.

(3) The percentage of milk sales assigned to quota price under this rule to any one new eligible producer may not exceed 35% of the current producer monthly average production (total quota production for the month, divided by the number of producers in production, times 35%).

History: 81-23-302, MCA; IMP, 81-23-302, MCA; NEW, 1988 MAR p. 2300, Eff. 10/28/88; AMD, 1990 MAR p. 931, Eff. 6/1/90; AMD, 1991 MAR p. 1550, Eff. 8/30/91; AMD, 1991 MAR p. 2600, Eff. 12/27/91; AMD, 1992 MAR p. 563, Eff. 3/27/92; TRANS, from Commerce, 1996 MAR p. 456; AMD, 2000 MAR p. 78, Eff. 1/14/00; AMD, 2017 MAR p. 1151, Eff. 8/1/17.