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Mississippi Code 1972 (2023)
Title 69 - AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND ANIMALS (§§ 69-1-1 — 69-55-9)
Chapter 37 - MISSISSIPPI BOLL WEEVIL MANAGEMENT ACT (§§ 69-37-1 — 69-37-41)
- Section 69-37-1 - Short title
- Section 69-37-3 - Purpose; liberal construction
- Section 69-37-5 - Definitions
- Section 69-37-7 - Authorization for programs to suppress or eradicate boll weevil; cooperation with other agencies or persons
- Section 69-37-9 - Entry upon premises to carry out provisions of chapter; monitoring, inspection, treatment with pesticides, and other activities; notice to owner; warrant
- Section 69-37-11 - All persons growing cotton to furnish information to commissioner and corporation
- Section 69-37-13 - Bureau may certify Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation for purpose of entering into agreements to effectuate purposes of chapter; eligibility for certification; corporation board of directors
- Section 69-37-15 - Certification of Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation as official administrative and regulatory body; effect; revocation; debts of corporation not a liability of bureau or department
- Section 69-37-17 - Referenda, at request of corporation, as to assessments on cotton growers; character and disposition of funds assessed; Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation Trust Fund
- Section 69-37-19 - Conduct of referenda; expenses
- Section 69-37-21 - Subsequent referenda; annual report; limitation on assessment of fees
- Section 69-37-23 - Liens to secure payment of assessments and penalties; destruction of untreatable commercial cotton as nuisance; compensation
- Section 69-37-25 - Quarantine, and control of movement of articles from infested areas in other states, by regulation of Bureau of Plant Industry
- Section 69-37-27 - Suppression, pre-eradication, eradication and no-growth zones; growers to share costs; notice, referenda, penalties, and appeal of penalties
- Section 69-37-29 - Destruction or treatment of cotton in eradication zones; compensation
- Section 69-37-31 - Regulations pertaining to livestock pasturage, human entry, honeybee colonies, and other activities affecting boll weevil control programs
- Section 69-37-33 - Penalties for violations
- Section 69-37-35 - Exemptions from assessment penalties for financial hardship; payment plan
- Section 69-37-37 - Extension of chapter to other cotton pests upon recommendation of the corporation
- Section 69-37-39 - Boll Weevil Management Fund; deposits; disbursements
- Section 69-37-41 - Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation to be certified as administering authority to plan and implement boll weevil management programs
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