(1) (a) To carry out the provisions and intent of this article, the state board of stock inspection commissioners, by and through the brand commissioner or a designated agent thereof, shall collect an assessment on horses for which a brand inspection fee is also collected as provided in section 35-41-104. The board of directors of the authority shall determine the assessment in an amount not to exceed three dollars per horse. No person shall be assessed more than a total of one hundred dollars in a calendar year.
(b) Any person may purchase a Colorado horse development authority assessment card for one hundred dollars from the authority to provide evidence to the state board of stock inspection commissioners, by and through the brand commissioner or a designated agent thereof, at the time a brand inspection fee is collected as provided in section 35-41-104, that the assessment due pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section has been collected. Such Colorado horse development authority assessment card shall be valid for a period of one calendar year.
(2) The assessment shall be directly deposited by the livestock inspectors into an account specified by the Colorado horse development authority board. The state board of stock inspection commissioners is authorized to bill the Colorado horse development authority a fee collected pursuant to agreement between the state board of stock inspection commissioners and the Colorado horse development board. Such fee shall not exceed ten percent of the assessment determined by the board pursuant to this section.
Source: L. 98: Entire section added, p. 1260, § 7, effective June 1.