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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>57963</law_id><section_number>3.2-1210</section_number><catch_line>Questions to be printed on ballots</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>3.2-1212</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Boards, Councils, Foundations, and Commissions</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Commodity Boards</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="12">Apple Board</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The question to be printed on the ballots used in the <span class="dictionary">referendum</span> held under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Referendum on question of levying apple excise tax" href="/3.2-1208/">3.2-1208</a>, shall be:
		&#x201C;Do you favor the <span class="dictionary">levy</span> of an excise tax of 2.5 cents ($0.025) per <span class="dictionary">tree run bushel</span> of ungraded apples grown in the Commonwealth for sale by <span class="dictionary">producers</span> of at least 5,000 <span class="dictionary">tree run bushels</span> per calendar year, to be paid into the Apple Fund and distributed as follows: up to 40 percent paid to the U.S. Apple Association for publicity and industry development; up to 20 percent paid to the Virginia State Horticultural Society for education and industry development; up to 20 percent paid to the Virginia Apple Research Program for research; up to 10 percent to be used for administration of this article; and up to 10 percent to be held in the Apple Fund as a reserve with: (i) a maximum amount of $125,000; and (ii) a requirement that any appropriation from the reserve receive at least two-thirds of the votes of the <span class="dictionary">members</span> of the Apple <span class="dictionary">Board</span>? If the maximum amount of the reserve fund is met, then the amount of that 10 percent distribution that exceeds the reserve fund shall be divided equally among the U.S. Apple Association, the Virginia State Horticultural Society, and the Virginia Apple Research Program.
		_____ Yes
		_____ No.&#x201D;</p></section></text><history>2005, cc. 864, 875, &#xA7; 3.1-636.4; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
