N.M. Stat. § 76-5-8

Current through 2024, ch. 69
Section 76-5-8 - Duties and powers of local control committees

Local control committees shall:

A. cooperate with all federal and state agencies to facilitate the execution of the grasshopper and other range pest extermination program within control districts;
B. levy and collect a special assessment, based on acreage sprayed or baited, against the land users within a control district whose lands have benefited from the extermination program; the special assessment against each land user shall be the sum equal to the land user's ratable share, as defined by proportional acreage treated, of one-half the state moneys expended for the extermination program within the control district;
C. pay over to the state grasshopper and other range pest control board [New Mexico department of agriculture] moneys assessed and collected from land users within a control district; and
D. render a complete report to the state grasshopper and other range pest control board [department] after the completion of the extermination program in the control district.

NMS § 76-5-8

1953 Comp., § 45-8-19, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 212, § 7; 1967, ch. 63, § 6.