3.2-3500 - Development of farmers market system.

§ 3.2-3500. Development of farmers market system.

In overseeing the development of a farmers market system, the Board shall:

1. Identify farmers market needs throughout the Commonwealth;

2. Promote the orderly growth and development of farmers markets;

3. Promote public awareness of farmers markets;

4. Promote the coordination of Virginia's farmers market development withother segments of the Commonwealth's economy, such as tourism, horticulturalproduction and marketing, fruit and vegetable production and marketing,retail trade, wholesale trade, intrastate marketing, interstate marketing,and new marketing ventures such as electronic marketing; and

5. Advise the Governor on the development of the system of state-ownedfarmers market facilities.

(1986, c. 375, § 3.1-73.3; 1989, c. 413; 2001, cc. 17, 398; 2009, c. 860.)