For the enforcement of the New Mexico Fertilizer Act, the board may prescribe and, after public hearing following due public notice, adopt the rules relating to the distribution of fertilizers and soil conditioners that it may find necessary to carry into effect the full intent and meaning of the New Mexico Fertilizer Act. Under this section, the board may promulgate rules for the storing, hauling and handling of anhydrous ammonia and other gaseous or liquid fertilizers, and they shall have the same effect as law. History: 1953 Comp., § 45-13-23, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 184, § 13; 1967, ch. 69, § 1; 1975, ch. 181, § 13; 2013, ch. 112, § 12. ANNOTATIONSThe 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, authorized the board to adopt rules relating to the distribution of all fertilizers; in the title of the section, deleted 'regulations' and added 'rules'; in the first and the second sentences, deleted 'regulations' and added 'rules'; and in the first sentence, deleted 'commercial' before 'fertilizer'. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 3 Am. Jur. 2d Agriculture § 57. 3 C.J.S. Agriculture § 76.
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