A. Freeholders owning in the aggregate in any county 25 percent of the total land area thereof may petition the board of county commissioners for the establishment of a wind erosion district coextensive with the boundaries of the county. Resident entrymen of federal public lands and lessees of state agricultural lands shall be considered as freeholders for the purposes of this act [73-22-1 to 73-22-5 NMSA 1978] and shall share all of the privileges and obligations thereof.
B. The board of county commissioners after determining that any such petition is in conformity with the requirements of Subsection A of this section and upon payment by the petitioners of a sufficient sum to defray the cost shall order an election to be called on the question of the establishment of [such] wind erosion district.
History: 1953 Comp., § 45-6-23, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 241, § 2.
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