Designation of marketing areas; additional areas; modification or consolidation of areas

1. The Director shall designate marketing areas which it deems necessary or advisable to effectuate the purposes of NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive, and wherein the Director finds the conditions affecting the production, distribution and sale of fluid milk, fluid cream and other dairy products are reasonably uniform. 2. The Director may establish additional areas or modify areas theretofore established when the Director 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 Director 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, the Director 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.