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.
History: 1953 Comp., § 45-8-19, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 212, § 7; 1967, ch. 63, § 6.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and it is not part of the law. Section 76-5-4 NMSA 1978 provided that references to the "grasshopper and other range pest control board" means the New Mexico department of agriculture.
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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