As used in the New Mexico Sheep and Goat Act:
A. "board" means the New Mexico livestock board;
B. "council" means the New Mexico sheep and goat council;
C. "department" means the New Mexico department of agriculture;
D. "director" means the director of the New Mexico department of agriculture;
E. "handler" means any producer, processor, distributor or other person engaged in handling, marketing or dealing in sheep or haired goats or their products; and
F. "producer" means any person engaged in the business of raising, breeding, feeding or growing sheep or haired goats.
History: Laws 1997, ch. 99, § 2 and Laws 1997, ch. 147, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSDuplicate laws. — Laws 1997, ch. 99, § 2 and Laws 1997, ch. 147, § 2 enacted identical new sections of law. Both were compiled as 77-8A-2 NMSA 1978.