La. Rev. Stat. § 3:1609
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Eradication zones; participation in eradication program; penalty fees
Official statutory text
A. The commission may designate by rule or regulation, one or more areas of the state as eradication zones where boll weevil eradication programs will be undertaken.
B. The commission may adopt rules and regulations regarding areas where cotton cannot be planted within an eradication zone when there is reason to believe it will jeopardize the success of the program or present a hazard to public health or safety.
C. The commission may adopt rules and regulations prohibiting the planting of noncommercial cotton in such eradication zones, and requiring that all cotton producers of commercial cotton in the eradication zones participate in a program of boll weevil eradication as prescribed in the rules and regulations. Notice of such prohibition and requirement shall be given by publication for one day each week for three successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the affected area.
D. The commission may set, by rule or regulation, a reasonable schedule of penalty fees to be assessed when cotton producers in designated eradication zones do not meet the requirements of rules or regulations adopted by the commission with respect to reporting of acreage as prescribed by regulation. Such penalty fees shall not exceed a charge of twenty-five dollars per acre per year.
E. When a cotton producer fails to meet the requirements of rules and regulations adopted by the commission, the commissioner may destroy cotton in eradication zones which is not in compliance with such rules and regulations, provided notification of such proposed action by the commissioner, not less than twenty-one days prior to such action being taken, has been properly filed and maintained in accordance with the central registry provisions of R.S. 3:3651 et seq., and any secured party of any cotton producer has been notified by the commissioner of such proposed action by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, within said delay. Costs incurred by the commissioner shall be assessed against the cotton producer.
Acts 1992, No. 58, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 124, §1; Acts 2019, No. 185, §1, eff. June 11, 2019.
B. The commission may adopt rules and regulations regarding areas where cotton cannot be planted within an eradication zone when there is reason to believe it will jeopardize the success of the program or present a hazard to public health or safety.
C. The commission may adopt rules and regulations prohibiting the planting of noncommercial cotton in such eradication zones, and requiring that all cotton producers of commercial cotton in the eradication zones participate in a program of boll weevil eradication as prescribed in the rules and regulations. Notice of such prohibition and requirement shall be given by publication for one day each week for three successive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the affected area.
D. The commission may set, by rule or regulation, a reasonable schedule of penalty fees to be assessed when cotton producers in designated eradication zones do not meet the requirements of rules or regulations adopted by the commission with respect to reporting of acreage as prescribed by regulation. Such penalty fees shall not exceed a charge of twenty-five dollars per acre per year.
E. When a cotton producer fails to meet the requirements of rules and regulations adopted by the commission, the commissioner may destroy cotton in eradication zones which is not in compliance with such rules and regulations, provided notification of such proposed action by the commissioner, not less than twenty-one days prior to such action being taken, has been properly filed and maintained in accordance with the central registry provisions of R.S. 3:3651 et seq., and any secured party of any cotton producer has been notified by the commissioner of such proposed action by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, within said delay. Costs incurred by the commissioner shall be assessed against the cotton producer.
Acts 1992, No. 58, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 124, §1; Acts 2019, No. 185, §1, eff. June 11, 2019.
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