§157-31 Petition to establish, revise, or terminate minimum prices, salvage values, and quotas. (a) Upon petition by the producers and producer-distributors who produce fifty-five per cent of the milk in a milk shed, or by fifty-five per cent of all producers in a milk shed, or upon the board's own motion, the board shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 to:
For the purposes of this section, each producer-member of an agricultural cooperative shall be counted as a producer, and an agricultural cooperative shall not be counted as a producer or as a producer-distributor.
(b) Public hearings to establish, revise, or terminate minimum prices, salvage values, and quotas or to establish specific formulas or criteria for setting minimum prices, salvage values, or quotas, shall not constitute a contested case as defined by chapter 91. [L 1967, c 260, §20; HRS §157-31; am L 1971, c 184, pt of §4; ree L 1972, c 40, pt of §2; am L 1977, c 96, §2; am L 1997, c 118, §§2, 6; am L 1998, c 19, §1]