Section 2-19-135 – Failure to Pay Assessments.
Section 2-19-135 Failure to pay assessments. (a) A cotton grower who fails to pay, when due and upon reasonable notice, any assessment levied under this article, shall be subject to a per acre penalty as established in the board’s regulations, in addition to the assessment. (b) A cotton grower who fails to pay all assessments, […]
Section 2-19-120 – Legislative Findings and Purpose.
Section 2-19-120 Legislative findings and purpose. The Legislature has found and determined and does hereby declare that the boll weevil is a public nuisance, a pest and a menace to the cotton industry. Due to the interstate nature of boll weevil infestation, it is necessary to secure the cooperation of cotton growers, and other state […]
Section 2-19-121 – Definitions.
Section 2-19-121 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the meaning stated below, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) BOLL WEEVIL. Anthonomus grandis Boheman in any stage of development. (2) CERTIFICATE. A document issued or authorized by the commissioner indicating that a regulated article is not contaminated with boll weevils. (3) […]
Section 2-19-122 – Cooperative Programs Authorized.
Section 2-19-122 Cooperative programs authorized. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to carry out programs to destroy and eliminate boll weevils in this state. The commissioner is authorized to cooperate with any agency of the federal government, any state, any other agency in this state, or any person engaged in growing, processing, marketing, handling […]
Section 2-19-123 – Entry of Premises; Eradication Activities; Inspections.
Section 2-19-123 Entry of premises; eradication activities; inspections. The commissioner shall have authority to enter cotton fields and other premises in order to carry out such activities, including but not limited to, treatment with pesticides, monitoring, and destruction of growing cotton and/or other host plants, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of […]
Section 2-19-124 – Reports of Cotton Growers Required.
Section 2-19-124 Reports of cotton growers required. Every person growing cotton in this state shall furnish to the commissioner on forms supplied by the commissioner, such information as the commissioner may require, concerning the size and location of all commercial cotton fields and of noncommercial patches of cotton grown as ornamentals or for other purposes. […]
Section 2-19-125 – Quarantine.
Section 2-19-125 Quarantine. The board or the commissioner, in the board’s absence, as provided in Sections 2-25-4 and 2-25-5, is empowered to promulgate regulations, quarantining this state, or any portion thereof, and governing the storage or other handling in the quarantined areas of regulated articles and the movement of regulated articles into or from such […]
Section 2-19-126 – Authority to Designate Elimination Zones; Authority to Prohibit Planting of Cotton and to Require Participation in Eradication Program.
Section 2-19-126 Authority to designate elimination zones; authority to prohibit planting of cotton and to require participation in eradication program. The board is authorized to designate by regulation one or more areas of this state as “elimination zones” where boll weevil eradication programs will be undertaken. The board is authorized to promulgate reasonable regulations regarding […]
Section 2-19-6 – Conversion, etc., of Cotton Samples.
Section 2-19-6 Conversion, etc., of cotton samples. Any person who is authorized to sample cotton and who, with intent to defraud, converts such samples to his own use or refuses to deliver them on demand to the owner, consignee or agent, unless they have been destroyed or stolen without his agency or taken out of […]
Section 2-19-22 – Implied Warranty as to Packing of Cotton.
Section 2-19-22 Implied warranty as to packing of cotton. When cotton in bales is sent by a planter or other owner to a factor for sale, a warranty is implied on the part of such planter or owner to the factor and the purchaser from such factor respectively that such cotton is not fraudulently packed […]