Section 76-21-13 – Commission organization; meetings.
The commission shall meet as soon as practicable for the purpose of organizing. It shall elect a chairman and a secretary-treasurer from among its members. It shall adopt a general statement of policy for guidance and shall transact such other business as is necessary to start the work of the commission. Thereafter, the commission shall […]
Section 76-21-2 – Definitions.
As used in the Agricultural Commodity Commission Act: A. “animal” means any agricultural animal except beef cattle and horses; B. “commercial channels” means the sale of the commodity for use as food or for industrial, agricultural or chemurgic use, when sold to any commercial buyer or to any person who resells the commodity or any […]
Section 76-21-3 – Petition for establishment of commission for a particular commodity.
Any twenty-five or more persons interested in the production of a particular commodity for which it is proposed to establish a commission may file a petition with the department [New Mexico department of agriculture] asking that a commission be established for such commodity. The petition shall set forth: A. the name of the commodity for […]
Section 76-21-4 – Petition filing fee.
A. The director shall prepare and deliver to the petitioners an original budget estimate of the cost of the proposed hearings and referendum. B. The petitioners, within thirty days after receipt of the cost estimate, shall remit to the director the amount of the cost estimate. History: Laws 1983, ch. 231, § 4.
Section 76-21-5 – Hearings regarding establishment of commodity commission; notice of hearings.
A. Within sixty days after the 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 commodity is grown in economic quantities. B. The notices of hearing shall be published at least […]
Section 76-21-6 – Determination by director regarding need for commodity commission.
A. After hearing, the director shall determine, based upon the facts presented and other relevant data available, if there is a need for the creation of a commission whose interest is the general welfare of the producers of the commodity and if the need is sufficient to justify the holding of a referendum thereon. B. […]
Section 76-21-7 – Referendum regarding establishment of commodity commission after determination by director.
A. If the director determines the need for a commission is sufficient to justify the holding of a referendum, he shall within a reasonable time hold a referendum upon the proposition of the creation of the commission. B. Notice of a referendum upon the proposition of the creation of a commission shall be given in […]
Section 76-21-8 – Creation of commission.
The director shall declare a commission created if the proposition received an affirmative vote in the referendum of two-thirds of the producers voting and if the total voting producers are producers of more than one-third of the total quantity of the commodity produced in the state in the last preceding year as determined by the […]
Section 76-21-9 – Election of members of commission; number of producers and handlers.
A. The commission shall be composed of from five to eleven members, as stated in the petition for referendum. Members shall be elected by producers from nominations made to the director by producers or producers’ organizations. B. Members of the commission shall be elected as follows within sixty days following the director’s declaration that a […]
Section 76-21-10 – Ex officio member of commission.
The director or his designee shall be ex officio member of the commission, without right to vote. History: Laws 1983, ch. 231, § 10.