---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 6415"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "6415"
heading: "Amendments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/6415"
units:
  - "Chapter 93 — Processor-Funded Milk Promotion Program"
---

# §6415. Amendments

- (a) **Amendments to order—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7) may issue such amendments to an order as may be necessary to carry out this chapter.
- (b) **Amendment to assessment rates—**
  - (1) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7) may conduct at any time a referendum of [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) who, during a representative period as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7), have been [fluid milk processors](/usc/7/6402.md?p=4) on adjusting the assessment rate under the order issued under this chapter then in effect, and shall hold such a referendum on request of the [Board](/usc/7/6402.md?p=2) or any group of such processors that among them marketed during a representative period, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7), 10 percent or more of the volume of [fluid milk products](/usc/7/6402.md?p=3) marketed by all processors.
  - (2) **Adjustment to assessment rate—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7) shall adjust the assessment rate under the order whenever the [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7) determines that the adjustment is favored—
    - (A) by at least 50 percent of [fluid milk processors](/usc/7/6402.md?p=4) voting in the referendum; and
    - (B) by [fluid milk processors](/usc/7/6402.md?p=4) that marketed during a representative period, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7), 60 percent or more of the volume of [fluid milk products](/usc/7/6402.md?p=3) marketed by all processors;

    In no event shall the rate of assessment prescribed by the order exceed 20 cents per hundredweight.

  - (3) **Effective date—** The adjusted assessment rate shall be effective on a date, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/7/6402.md?p=7), after the results of the referendum are known, but not later than 30 days after the referendum.
  - (4) **Costs; manner—** Subsections (c) and (d) of [section 6413 of this title](/usc/7/6413.md) shall apply to a referendum conducted under this subsection.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–624, title XIX, § 1999P, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3926.)