Mississippi Code
Chapter 37 - Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Act
§ 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

Upon determination by the bureau that the Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation meets the requirements of Section 69-37-13, the bureau shall certify the corporation as the official administrative and regulatory body for all Mississippi cotton growers who are members of a cotton growers association as defined in Section 69-37-5. The certification shall be for the purposes of this chapter only and shall not affect other organizations or associations of cotton growers established for other purposes.
The bureau shall certify only one (1) corporation and may revoke the certification of the corporation if at any time the corporation fails to meet the requirements of this chapter. The debts of the corporation, if there are any, shall not become the liability of the bureau or the department.

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals

Chapter 37 - Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Act

§ 69-37-1. Short title

§ 69-37-3. Purpose; liberal construction

§ 69-37-5. Definitions

§ 69-37-7. Authorization for programs to suppress or eradicate boll weevil; cooperation with other agencies or persons

§ 69-37-9. Entry upon premises to carry out provisions of chapter; monitoring, inspection, treatment with pesticides, and other activities; notice to owner; warrant

§ 69-37-11. All persons growing cotton to furnish information to commissioner and corporation

§ 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

§ 69-37-19. Conduct of referenda; expenses

§ 69-37-23. Liens to secure payment of assessments and penalties; destruction of untreatable commercial cotton as nuisance; compensation

§ 69-37-25. Quarantine, and control of movement of articles from infested areas in other states, by regulation of Bureau of Plant Industry

§ 69-37-27. Suppression, pre-eradication, eradication and no-growth zones; growers to share costs; notice, referenda, penalties, and appeal of penalties

§ 69-37-29. Destruction or treatment of cotton in eradication zones; compensation

§ 69-37-35. Exemptions from assessment penalties for financial hardship; payment plan

§ 69-37-37. Extension of chapter to other cotton pests upon recommendation of the corporation

§ 69-37-39. Boll Weevil Management Fund; deposits; disbursements

§ 69-37-41. Mississippi Boll Weevil Management Corporation to be certified as administering authority to plan and implement boll weevil management programs