01-001 C.M.R. ch. 2, § 5 - Purposes of the Market Order

The market order may specify one or more of the following functions as its purposes:

A. Promotion. Provide for advertising, promotion, and publicity programs that will maintain or enhance present markets or create new markets for the agricultural commodity involved in the market order. However, no such advertising, promotion or publicity program shall be conducted with reference to any particular private brand or trade name and no such program shall disparage the quality, value, sale or use of any other agricultural commodity.

B. Marketing and Product Research. Provide for marketing and/or product research believed to be beneficial to the industry.

C. Information Services. Provide for information services designed to keep the industry informed of such factors as crops, packs, storage facilities, marketing and product research, promotion, advertising and publicity programs, and similar information useful to the industry.

D. Standards. Provide for appropriate standards of quality, grade, condition, size, storage, shipment, maturity or commercial pack for the agricultural commodity subject to the market order, or for other handling procedures of such commodity. The Marketing Committee shall assist the Commissioner in developing such standards and in providing for appropriate inspection, including mandatory inspection if specified in the market order, and enforcement necessary to the purposes of the order.

E. Other. Such other purposes which are consistent with the Act.

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