Current through 82nd (2023) Legislative Session Chapter 535 and 34th (2023) Special Session Chapter 1 and 35th (2023) Special Session Chapter 1
Section 584.568 - Minimum prices; discounts1. Each stabilization and marketing plan may contain provisions fixing the price at which fluid milk and fluid cream is sold by producers, distributors and retailers and must contain provisions regulating all discounts allowed by producers, distributors and retailers, except those discounts offered by retailers to elderly consumers.2. If the Director establishes minimum prices to be paid by distributors to producers, the Director shall consider, but is not limited to considering, the following factors: (b) Reasonable return upon capital investment.(c) Producer transportation costs.(d) Cost of compliance with health regulations.(e) Current and prospective supplies of fluid milk and fluid cream in relation to current and prospective demands for such fluid milk and fluid cream.3. If the Director establishes minimum prices to be paid by retailers to wholesalers and by consumers to retailers, the Director shall consider, but is not limited to considering, the following factors:(a) The quantities of fluid milk or fluid cream, or both, distributed in the marketing area covered by the stabilization and marketing plan.(b) The quantities of fluid milk or fluid cream, or both, normally required by consumers in such marketing area.(c) The cost of fluid milk and fluid cream to distributors and retail stores, which is the price paid by distributors to producers and the price paid by wholesale customers to distributors, as established pursuant to NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive.(d) The reasonable cost of handling fluid milk and fluid cream incurred by distributors and retail stores, respectively, including all costs of hauling, processing, selling and delivering by the several methods used in such marketing area in hauling, processing, selling and delivering, as such costs are determined by impartial audits of the books and records, or surveys, or both, of all or such portion of the distributors and retail stores, respectively, of each type or class in such marketing area as are reasonably determined by the Director to be sufficiently representative to indicate the costs of all distributors and retail stores, respectively, in the marketing area.Added to NRS by 1959, 899; A 1977, 1641; 1979, 1309; 1983, 258Added to NRS by 1959, 899; A 1977, 1641; 1979, 1309; 1983, 258