The commission may issue a license to any applicant who demonstrates sufficient financial responsibility necessary to meet obligations reasonably likely to be attached to or result from weather control or cloud modification activities and skill and experience reasonably necessary to accomplishment of weather control without actionable injury to property or person.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-37-7, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 235, § 7; 2003, ch. 194, § 2.
The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, deleted "to the satisfaction of the board" following "sufficient financial responsibility".
Unsound, detrimental or undesirable projects may be refused. — The weather control and cloud modification commission may refuse a license to conduct weather control and cloud modification activities in the state of New Mexico to an applicant who satisfies the requirements for a license specified in this section, but who proposes a weather modification project which, in the scientific judgment of the commission, may be unsound, detrimental or undesirable. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-53.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 75 - Miscellaneous Natural Resource Matters
Article 3 - Weather Control and Cloud Modification
Section 75-3-3 - Declaration of rights.
Section 75-3-4 - License required.
Section 75-3-5 - Application for license.
Section 75-3-6 - Annual license fee; statement.
Section 75-3-7 - Issuance of license.
Section 75-3-8 - License fee; expiration.
Section 75-3-9 - Reports required from licensees.
Section 75-3-10 - Revocation of license.
Section 75-3-11 - Judicial review.
Section 75-3-12 - Operations affecting weather in other states.
Section 75-3-13 - Enforcement.