A. For the purpose of further extending the cooperative work provided in Sections 76-2-1 and 76-2-2 NMSA 1978 and the work provided in Sections 76-2-4 through 76-2-9 NMSA 1978, there may be created in each county a public corporation known as the county farm and livestock bureau.
B. Whenever any number of bona fide farmers and stockmen comprising not less than five percent of the total number of farmers and stockmen within any county, as determined by the last United States decennial census, desire to form an organization for doing extension work in agriculture, home economics and marketing and have held a meeting at which the organization is approved by a majority of those present, application may be made to the secretary of state for incorporation as a nonprofit corporation or association under the provisions of the Nonprofit Corporation Act [Chapter 53, Article 8 NMSA 1978]. When such corporation or association has been effected, it shall be recognized as the official body within the county for carrying on extension work in agriculture and home economics in cooperation with New Mexico state university. When its charter has been issued, the corporation may make regulations and bylaws for its government and the carrying on of its work, not inconsistent with the provisions of this section and Sections 76-2-11 and 76-2-12 NMSA 1978.
C. Any county farm and livestock bureau or other county organization that is now doing extension work in agriculture and home economics in cooperation with New Mexico state university may be incorporated by furnishing satisfactory evidence of compliance with this section to the secretary of state; provided that only one such corporation may be formed in any county.
History: Laws 1919, ch. 74, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 3-201; 1941 Comp., § 48-110; 1953 Comp., § 45-1-10; Laws 1959, ch. 240, § 1; 1975, ch. 217, § 96; 2013, ch. 75, § 48.
The 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, required that applications for incorporation of a nonprofit corporation by farmers and stockmen be filed with the secretary of state; in Subsection B, in the first sentence, after "application may be made to the", deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state"; and in Subsection C, after "with this section to the", deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state".
Authority over wild horses. — This chapter does not grant the department or the county farm and livestock bureaus authority to regulate the treatment of wild horses. 1994 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 94-06.
Law reviews. — For article, "Farmland Preservation Policy and Programs," see 24 Nat. Resources J. 592 (1984).
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