Chapter
Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Act
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-1— Short title
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-3— Purpose; liberal construction
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-5— Definitions
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-7— Authorization for programs to suppress or eradicate boll weevil; cooperation with other agencies or persons
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-9— Entry upon premises to carry out provisions of chapter; monitoring, inspection, treatment with pesticides, and other activities; notice to owner; warrant
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-11— All persons growing cotton to furnish information to commissioner and corporation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 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
- Miss. Code Ann. § 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
- Miss. Code Ann. § 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and disposition of funds assessed; Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation Trust Fund [Paragraph (8)(b) repealed effective July 1, 2020]
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-19— Conduct of referenda; expenses
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-21— Subsequent referenda; annual report; limitation on assessment of fees
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-23— Liens to secure payment of assessments and penalties; destruction of untreatable commercial cotton as nuisance; compensation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-25— Quarantine, and control of movement of articles from infested areas in other states, by regulation of Bureau of Plant Industry
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-27— Suppression, pre-eradication, eradication and no-growth zones; growers to share costs; notice, referenda, penalties, and appeal of penalties
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-29— Destruction or treatment of cotton in eradication zones; compensation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-31— Regulations pertaining to livestock pasturage, human entry, honeybee colonies, and other activities affecting boll weevil control programs
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-33— Penalties for violations
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-35— Exemptions from assessment penalties for financial hardship; payment plan
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-37— Extension of chapter to other cotton pests upon recommendation of the corporation
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-39— Boll Weevil Management Fund; deposits; disbursements
- Miss. Code Ann. § 69-37-41— Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation to be certified as administering authority to plan and implement boll weevil management programs