Authority of Marketing Board
 6. The Commission authorizes the marketing board, (a) to determine from time to time the price or prices that shall be paid to producers or the marketing board for milk or a class or grade of milk, and to determine different prices for different parts of Ontario; (b) to pay from service charges imposed under clause 5 (k) its expenses in carrying out the purposes of the plan; (c) to use a class of licence fees and other money payable to it for the purposes of paying the expenses of the marketing board, carrying out and enforcing the Act and the regulations and carrying out the purposes of the plan; (d) to establish a fund in connection with the plan for the payment of the money that may be required for the purposes mentioned in clause (c); (e) to prohibit the marketing of a class or grade of milk or cream; (f) to require the price or prices of milk and cream to be paid to or through the marketing board, and to recover the price or prices by action in a court of competent jurisdiction; (g) to purchase or otherwise acquire such quantity or quantities of milk as the marketing board deems advisable and to sell or otherwise dispose of the quantity or quantities of milk so purchased or otherwise acquired; (h) to conduct a pool or pools for the distribution of all money received from the sale of milk and, after deducting all necessary and proper disbursements and expenses, to distribute the remainder of the money so that every producer receives a share in relation to, (i) the amount, content and grade of milk supplied by the producer, (ii) the amount and type of quota for the marketing of milk held by the producer, and (iii) sales by the marketing board of the classes of milk; (i) to make an initial payment on delivery of milk mentioned in clause (h) and subsequent payments until all the remainder of the money received from the sale is distributed to the producers; (j) to require that milk or cream be marketed on a quota basis; (k) to prohibit persons to whom a quota has not been fixed and allotted for the marketing of milk or cream or whose quota has been cancelled from marketing milk or cream; (l) to prohibit persons to whom a quota has been fixed and allotted for the marketing of milk or cream from marketing milk or cream in excess of the quota; (m) to fix and allot to persons quotas for the marketing of milk or cream on such basis as the marketing board considers proper; (n) to refuse to fix and allot to a person a quota for the marketing of milk or cream for any reason that the marketing board considers proper; (o) to cancel or reduce, or refuse to increase, a quota fixed and allotted to a person for the marketing of milk or cream for any reason that the marketing board considers proper; (p) to permit a person to whom a quota has been fixed and allotted for the marketing of milk or cream to market milk or cream in excess of the quota on such terms as the marketing board considers proper; (q) to appoint agents, to prescribe their duties and terms of employment, and to fix their remuneration and provide for the payment of it; and (r) to impose and collect levies from producers of milk, to pay the levies to the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Corporation for the purpose of stimulating, increasing and improving the producing of milk and to fix the amount of the levies up to but not exceeding 6 cents per hectolitre of milk.  O. Reg. 354/95, s. 6; O. Reg. 18/97, s. 2. Negotiating Agency