Article 8. Amendment And Termination Of Stabilization And Marketing Plans of California Food And Agricultural Code >> Division 21. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 8.

The director may amend or terminate any stabilization and marketing plan, after notice and public hearing as prescribed in Article 7 (commencing with Section 61991), if he or she finds that the plan is no longer in conformity with the standards which are prescribed in, or will not tend to effectuate the purposes of, this chapter. Any order under this article amending or terminating any stabilization and marketing plan shall be subject to Section 61996.

A hearing on the amendment or termination of a stabilization and marketing plan may be held upon the motion of the director and shall be held upon receipt of a petition which is signed by producers, or by the board of directors of any nonprofit agricultural cooperative marketing association which is authorized by its members to so petition. Such petition shall represent not less than 55 percent of the total number of all producers and not less than 55 percent of the total production of all producers that are eligible to petition the director for the formulation of such a plan.