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Title 6 : Agriculture
Chapter 141 : Northeast Interstate Compact for Dairy Pricing
Subchapter 001 : Northeast Interstate Compact for Dairy Pricing
(Cite as: 6 V.S.A. § 1810)-
§ 1810. Optional provisions for pricing order
Regulations establishing a compact over-order price or a Commission marketing order may contain, but shall not be limited to, any of the following:
(1) Provisions classifying milk in accordance with the form in which or purpose for which it is used, or creating a flat pricing program.
(2) With respect to a Commission marketing order only, provisions establishing or providing a method for establishing separate minimum prices for each use classification prescribed by the Commission, or a single minimum price for milk purchased from producers or associations of producers.
(3) With respect to an over-order minimum price, provisions establishing or providing a method for establishing such minimum price for Class I milk.
(4) Provisions for establishing either an over-order price or a Commission marketing order may make use of any reasonable method for establishing such price or prices including flat pricing and formula pricing. Provision may also be made for location adjustments, zone differentials, and for competitive credits with respect to regulated handlers who market outside the regulated area.
(5) Provisions for the payment to all producers and associations of producers delivering milk to all handlers of uniform prices for all milk so delivered, irrespective of the uses made of such milk by the individual handler to whom it is delivered, or for the payment of producers delivering milk to the same handler of uniform prices for all milk delivered by them.
(A) With respect to regulations establishing a compact over-order price, the Commission may establish one equalization pool within the regulated area for the sole purpose of equalizing returns to producers throughout the regulated area.
(B) With respect to any Commission marketing order, as defined in section 1802 of this compact, subdivision (9), which replaces one or more terminated federal orders or state dairy regulation, the marketing area of now separate state or federal orders shall not be merged without the affirmative consent of each state, voting through its delegation, which is partly or wholly included within any such new marketing area.
(6) Provisions requiring persons who bring Class I milk into the regulated area to make compensatory payments with respect to all such milk to the extent necessary to equalize the cost of milk purchased by handlers subject to a compact over-order price or Commission marketing order. No such provisions shall discriminate against milk producers outside the regulated area. The provisions for compensatory payments may require payment of the difference between the Class I price required to be paid for such milk in the state of production by a federal milk marketing order or state dairy regulation and the Class I price established by the compact over-order price or Commission marketing order.
(7) Provisions specially governing the pricing and pooling of milk handled by partially regulated plants.
(8) Provisions requiring that the account of any person regulated under a compact over-order price shall be adjusted for any payments made to or received by such persons with respect to a producer settlement fund of any federal or state milk marketing order or other state dairy regulation within the regulated area.
(9) Provisions requiring the payment by handlers of an assessment to cover the costs of the administration and enforcement of such order pursuant to Article VII, subsection 1818(a) of this chapter.
(10) Provisions for reimbursement to participants of the Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Food Program of the United States Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
(11) Other provisions and requirements as the Commission may find are necessary or appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this compact and to provide for the payment of fair and equitable minimum prices to producers. (Added 1993, No. 57, § 1, eff. June 3, 1993.)
