Sec. 22-62. Declaration of necessity.
Sec. 22-62. Declaration of necessity. It is found and declared that large quantities
of agricultural products, grown in Connecticut or brought from other states or countries
into this state for consumption, must pass through wholesale marketing systems which
are inadequate to meet present and future requirements; that the inadequacy of these
systems contributes to high distributing costs and deterioration of products with concomitant losses to growers, distributors and the consuming public; that improvement of these
systems would annually result in large savings to the consuming public, distributors
and agricultural producers alike, all for the general welfare; that the efforts of public
officers, the produce trade and other interested organizations to achieve these improvements by purely private means have not succeeded; that the establishment and operation
of regional markets have become and are public uses and purposes for which public
money may be spent and private property acquired and are governmental functions of
state concern; that it is in the public interest to authorize the creation of marketing
facilities which are to be organized and operated on a nonprofit, self-liquidating basis.
(1949, S. 1715d.)