A. Cotton boll weevil control committees may:

(1) conduct programs to monitor, suppress or eradicate cotton boll weevils within their cotton boll weevil control districts;

(2) cooperate in the administration of the Cotton Boll Weevil Control Act through the use of state or federal personnel and facilities or both;

(3) contract for services or enter into cooperative agreements;

(4) publish information and conduct seminars on the distribution and control of the cotton boll weevil;

(5) levy and collect a special assessment, based on cotton acreage or cotton yield per acre within the cotton boll weevil control districts; and

(6) borrow money or accept grants, donations or contributions for any purpose consistent with the powers and duties of the cotton boll weevil control committee.

B. Cotton boll weevil control committees shall provide a complete accounting of the funds collected through the special assessment to all participating cotton producers in the cotton boll weevil control districts.

C. The cotton boll weevil control committee shall send notice of the establishment of a cotton boll weevil control district and its defined boundaries to the organic commodity commission [New Mexico department of agriculture] within fourteen days of its establishment.

D. If the cotton boll weevil control district includes certified organic acreage, the cotton boll weevil control committee shall select an organic cotton producer operating within the district, who shall have all the powers of a committee member, to serve on the cotton boll weevil control committee.

History: Laws 1996, ch. 77, § 11; 1997, ch. 57, § 5; 1999, ch. 8, § 2; 2005, ch. 14, § 3; 2005, ch. 18, § 3.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 2011, ch. 29, § 6 provided that all references to the organic commodity commission be deemed references to the New Mexico department of agriculture.

The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, permitted cotton boll weevil control committees to conduct programs to monitor cotton boll weevils within their districts; and in Subsection D, changed "organic farmer" to "organic cotton producer".

Laws 2005, ch. 14, § 3 and Laws 2005, ch. 18, § 3 enacted identical amendments to this section. The section was set out as amended by Laws 2005, ch. 18, § 3. See 12-1-8 NMSA 1978.

The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, added Paragraph A(6).

The 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, deleted "local" preceding "cotton boll weevil" in the section heading and throughout the section; substituted "districts" for "district" throughout the section; in paragraph A(3), substituted "state, federal or local" for "other agencies, including federal"; and added Subsections C and D.