1. The commissioner shall consult with the county and city weed boards and develop a method for the distribution to county and city weed boards of all moneys appropriated by the state for noxious weed control, other than the landowner assistance grants provided for in section 4.1-47-16.
2. The method must:
a. Limit the amount that any county or city weed board is entitled to receive under this section to seventy-five percent of the board's actual expenditures under this section; and b. Allow the commissioner to waive the limit provided for in this subsection if the commissioner determines that a noxious weed is seriously endangering areas of a county, a city, or the state.