[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 50CFR270.18]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 
           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 270_SPECIES-SPECIFIC SEAFOOD MARKETING COUNCILS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 270.18  Method of imposing assessments.

    Assessments will be imposed on sector participants in the receiving 
sector or the importing sector or both as specified in an approved 
Council charter. Assessment rates will be based on value that may be 
expressed in monetary units or units of weight or volume.
    (a) An assessment on sector participants in the receiving sector 
will be in the form of a percentage of the value or a fixed amount per 
unit of weight or volume of the fish described in the charter when 
purchased by such receivers from fish harvesters.
    (b) An assessment on sector participants who own fish processing 
vessels and harvest the fish described in the charter will be in the 
form of a percentage of the value or on a fixed amount per unit of 
weight or volume of the fish described in the charter that is no less 
than the value if such fish had been purchased by a receiver other than 
the owner of the harvesting vessel.
    (c) An assessment on sector participants in the importing sector 
will be in the form of a percentage of the value that an importer pays 
to a foreign supplier, as determined for the purposes of the customs 
laws, or a fixed amount per unit of weight or volume, of the fish or 
fish products described in the charter when entered or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, in the customs territory of the United States 
by such sector participants.
    (d) A Council may not impose an assessment on any person that was 
not eligible to vote in the referendum establishing the Council by 
reason of failure to meet the requirements specified under unless that 
person, after the date on which the referendum is held, meets the 
requirements of section.

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    (e) Any person may make voluntary payments or in-kind contributions 
to a Council for purposes of assisting the Council in carrying out its 
functions.