1. If the Director finds that a stabilization and marketing plan is necessary to accomplish the purposes of NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive, it shall formulate a stabilization and marketing plan for fluid milk or fluid cream, or both, for such area and issue a notice of public hearing upon the plan formulated to all producers and distributors of record with the Director who may be subject to the provisions of the plan.

2. The notice of hearing may be effected by mail or by publication for 5 successive days in a newspaper of general circulation in the area designated and must specify the time and the place of the hearing, which must not be held before 10 days from the mailing or from the final publication of the notice, but if no daily newspaper of general circulation is published in the area designated, publication of notice for 2 successive weeks in a weekly newspaper of general circulation in the area will be considered proper publication of notice.

3. At the hearing, which must be held in the area to which the plan applies, interested persons shall be heard and records kept of the hearing for determination by the Director whether the plan proposed will accomplish the purposes of NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive.

4. If, after public hearing, the Director determines that the proposed plan will tend to accomplish the purposes of NRS 584.325 to 584.670, inclusive, within the standards herein prescribed, the Director shall issue an order to all producers and distributors of record with the Director and subject to the provisions of the plan, declaring the plan in effect within 30 days from the date of the hearing.

[53:387:1955] — (NRS A 1979, 1308)