For the purposes of the Forest Conservation Act [68-2-1 to 68-2-25 NMSA 1978], the division is designated as the agent of the state and is authorized to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with the secretary of agriculture of the United States of America, private landowners, the commissioner of public lands of the state, individuals, corporations or other state, federal and private agencies or organizations to prevent and suppress forest fires, brush fires, grass fires or other wild fires, to do research, establish nurseries and furnish technical advice to the people of the state, and to do all other acts necessary to take advantage of, and carry out the provisions of the acts of congress hereinbefore set out, and all other acts of congress which are promulgated for forest conservation or rural fire defense purposes.
History: 1953 Comp., § 62-3-6, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 122, § 6; 1963, ch. 24, § 1; 1977, ch. 254, § 79.
Cross references. — For acts of congress, see 68-2-2 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto.
Law reviews. — For note, "Forest Fire Protection on Public and Private Lands in New Mexico," see 4 Nat. Resources J. 374 (1964).
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