2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 20 - Soil and Water and Watershed Conservation Districts
Section 73-20-28 - Soil and water conservation commission members.

There is created a "soil and water conservation commission" to be composed of seven appointed members and five ex-officio members. The seven appointed members shall be selected by and serve at the pleasure of the governor. Six of the appointed members shall be supervisors and shall be selected and appointed from a panel of three candidates from each region, compiled by the districts of each region and presented by the president of the New Mexico association of conservation districts. One appointed member shall be selected at large and shall be a person interested and active in the conservation or development of natural resources in New Mexico. The five ex-officio members shall serve without vote and shall include:

A. the governor or his designee;

B. the associate director of the cooperative extension service of New Mexico state university or his designee;

C. the associate director of the agricultural experiment station of New Mexico state university or his designee;

D. the state conservationist of the natural resources conservation service of the United States department of agriculture or his designee; and

E. the president of the New Mexico association of conservation districts or his designee.

History: 1953 Comp., § 45-5-45, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 137, § 4; 1973, ch. 324, § 3; 1977, ch. 254, § 58; 2003, ch. 88, § 3.

The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, in the first paragraph substituted "appointed" for "continuing" in the first sentence, substituted "appointed" for "continuing commission" in the second sentence, substituted "of the appointed" for "continuing committee" following "Six", deleted "district" following "members shall be", substituted "New Mexico" for "state" following "president of the", and deleted "soil and water" following "association of" in the third sentence, substituted "appointed" for "continuing commission" in the fourth sentence, and deleted "commission" following "ex-officio" in the fifth sentence; deleted "state" following "director of the" near the middle of Subsection B; deleted "state" following "director of the" near the middle of Subsection C; substituted "of the natural resources" for "soil" following "conservationist" near the beginning of Subsection D; and, in Subsection E, substituted "New Mexico" for "state" near the beginning, and deleted "soil and water" following "association of" near the middle.