11-36-101. Short title; legislative declarations; purposes.

(a) This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Wyoming Dairy Marketing Act of 1971."

(b) It is hereby declared:

(i) That a sound and efficiently operated system for distribution, transportation, manufacture, storage, sale, handling, marketing, pricing, processing, production and promotion of dairy products is essential to a prosperous dairy industry within the state of Wyoming and is indispensable to the maintenance of full employment, health, welfare and prosperity of the state;

(ii) That the marketing of dairy products in this state in excess of market demands, disorderly marketing of such commodities, improper preparation for market and lack of uniform grading and classification of dairy products, unfair methods of competition in marketing of dairy products and the inability of individual producers, processors or handlers to maintain present markets or to develop new or larger markets for Wyoming dairy products, result in an unreasonable and unnecessary economic waste of part of the agricultural wealth of this state;

(iii) That such conditions and waste jeopardize the continued distributing, transporting, manufacturing, selling, storing, handling, marketing, pricing, processing, producing and promoting of adequate food supplies, feed and fiber for the people of this state and other states and prevent producers, processors or handlers of dairy products from obtaining a fair return on their labor, invested capital and expertise;

(iv) That such conditions and waste vitally concern the health, peace, safety and welfare of the people of this state;

(v) That the distributing, transporting, manufacturing, selling, storing, handling, marketing, pricing, processing, producing and promoting of dairy products in Wyoming is hereby declared to be affected with a public interest. Accordingly, the provisions of this act are enacted in the exercise of the police powers of this state for the purpose of protecting the health, peace, safety and welfare of the people of this state.

(c) It is hereby declared to be the purposes of this act to aid agricultural producers, processors or handlers of dairy products in the orderly distributing, transporting, manufacturing, selling, storing, handling, marketing, pricing, processing, producing and promoting of dairy products, to provide methods and means for the development of new and larger markets and to reduce waste in the marketing of dairy products.