856 ARTICLE 65A.

1935, ch. 310, sec. 14.

14. Anything in the common or statute law of this State to the con-
trary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful:

(a) For any two or more distributors purchasing in the same market
to associate and to meet, confer and agree with one or more cooperative
milk associations, wheresoever organized or with any group of producers,
whether members of such association or not, selling in the same market,
upon prices to be paid by milk dealers to producers and others and to
be charged by producers and others to milk dealers for milk in its various
grades and uses subject to the regulations laid down in sub-paragraph
(g) of Section three, and upon rules and regulations governing the method

of determining the proportion of the lacteal secretion of the entire herd of
a producer which shall be accepted and paid for pursuant to such price

or prices, or establishing other reasonable trade practices affecting the
relations between producers and distributors in such market.

No such agreement shall, however, be effective unless and until a copy
thereof, signed by all persons, parties thereto, shall have been filed with
and approved by the Commission as hereinafter provided. Whenever
such copy shall have been filed with the Commission, the Commission shall
give notice by mail to all applicants or licensees as distributors, or producer

distributors and to all permit holding producers in the market affected
thereby, excepting those shown by such copy to be parties to such agree-
ment. Such notice shall specify a time, not less than ten days after the

date thereof, and a place at which objections to any terms and conditions

of such agreement will be heard by the Commission. If, after such hear-
ing, the Commission finds that the proportion of the normal milk supply

of the market covered by such agreement is not less than sixty-five per

centum thereof and that such agreement is approved in writing by not
fewer than ten per centum of the distributors in numbers in the area
affected representing not less than thirty-five per centum of the milk

handled in said area, the Commission may approve, modify or reject such

agreement.

Any such agreement approved by the Commission as offered, or as
modified by it, shall become effective.

(b) For any distributor or distributors, producer-distributor or pro-

ducer-distributors, distributing broker or brokers, or person or persons
conducting retail stores, selling in the same market, to associate and to

meet, confer and agree with persons belonging to any of the other groups
mentioned in this paragraph upon uniform whole¹ and retail prices, or
either, of each grade, quantity and class of milk to be offered for sale at
wholesale or retail in such market and upon rules and regulations estab-
lishing other reasonable trade practices affecting the marketing of milk
at wholesale or retail in such market, subject to the provisions of sub-
section (g) of Section three of this Article. No such agreement shall,
however, be effective unless and until a copy thereof signed by all persons

¹ Word "wholesale" obviously intended.