As used in the Cotton Boll Weevil Control Act:

A. "board" means the board of regents of New Mexico state university;

B. "cotton boll weevil" means any life stage of the cotton insect Anthonomus grandis Boheman;

C. "cotton boll weevil control committee" means the persons, not less than three nor more than seven, elected by a majority of the cotton producers voting in a designated cotton boll weevil control district;

D. "cotton boll weevil control district" means a designated area duly established under the Cotton Boll Weevil Control Act wherein a program to monitor, suppress or eradicate the cotton boll weevil is administered;

E. "cotton producer" means any person growing five or more acres of cotton plants. For the purposes of the Cotton Boll Weevil Control Act, only one person from any farm, sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership or any other legal business arrangement shall be eligible to vote to establish or dissolve a cotton boll weevil control district;

F. "department" means the New Mexico department of agriculture;

G. "director" means the director of the New Mexico department of agriculture; and

H. "organic cotton producer" means any person growing cotton who is certified by the organic commodity commission [New Mexico department of agriculture] as a producer of organic or transitional cotton.

History: Laws 1996, ch. 77, § 3; 1997, ch. 57, § 2; 2000, ch. 35, § 1; 2005, ch. 14, § 1; 2005, ch. 18, § 1.

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, revised the definition of cotton boll weevil control district to add designated areas where a program to monitor the cotton boll weevil is administered.

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

The 2000 amendment, effective March 6, 2000, inserted "voting" following "cotton producers" in Subsection C.

The 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, added Subsection H and made related stylistic changes.