NRS584.550. Designation of marketing areas; additional areas; modification or consolidation of areas.

      1.  The Commission shall designate marketing areas which it deems necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive, and wherein it finds the conditions affecting the production, distribution and sale of fluid milk, fluid cream and other dairy products are reasonably uniform.

      2.  The Commission may establish additional areas or modify areas theretofore established when it deems the establishment or modification of such areas necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive.

      3.  When the Commission finds, after a public hearing in and for each particular marketing area under consideration for consolidation, that conditions of production and distribution are reasonably uniform in two or more such marketing areas wherein stabilization and marketing plans are in effect, it may consolidate the area, provided that at the hearings more than 35 percent of the producers present who supply the areas proposed to be consolidated do not object to such consolidation.

      [50:387:1955]—(NRS A 2013, 610)