Within sixty days after a petition has been filed with the director and upon payment of the cost estimate, the director shall cause notices to be given of the proposed hearings in areas of the state where the cotton boll weevil is of economic importance. The notices of hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the proposed cotton boll weevil control district, and shall be sent directly to the organic commodity commission [New Mexico department of agriculture], at least fourteen days prior to the date of the hearing.
History: Laws 1996, ch. 77, § 8; 1997, ch. 57, § 4.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed 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 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, deleted "at least fourteen days prior to the date of hearing" following "shall be published" in the second sentence and added "and shall be sent directly to the organic commodity commission, at least fourteen days prior to the date of the hearings" to the end of the second sentence.