N.M. Stat. § 76-5-8
Duties and powers of local control committees.
Local control committees shall:
A. cooperate with all federal and state agencies to facilitate the execution of the
grasshopper and other range pest extermination program within control districts;
B. levy and collect a special assessment, based on acreage sprayed or baited,
against the land users within a control district whose lands have benefited from the
extermination program; the special assessment against each land user shall be the sum
equal to the land user's ratable share, as defined by proportional acreage treated, of
one-half the state moneys expended for the extermination program within the control
district;
C. pay over to the state grasshopper and other range pest control board [New
Mexico department of agriculture] moneys assessed and collected from land users
within a control district; and
D. render a complete report to the state grasshopper and other range pest control
board [department] after the completion of the extermination program in the control
district.