2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 77 - Animals and Livestock › Article 15 - Predatory Wild Animals and Rodent Pests › Section 77-15-3 - Apportionment of appropriation; sale of furs and specimens; bounty.

The funds hereby appropriated shall be apportioned for predatory animal destruction and rodent pest repression in such amounts as may be stated in such agreement or in the absence of such agreement as may be determined by the president of New Mexico state university, who shall forward a certificate of such apportionment to the department of finance and administration and a duplicate thereof to the state treasurer, who shall thereupon credit the funds available for the said appropriations to the predatory animal fund and the rodent pest repression fund respectively as stated in said certificate. Said funds shall be expended in amounts as authorized by said president and disbursed by warrants issued by the secretary of finance and administration upon itemized vouchers or payrolls certified by the predatory animal inspector of the bureau of biological survey or by the state rodent inspector or the assistant of the biological survey in charge of rodent pest repression, respectively.
All furs, skins and specimens taken by hunters or trappers paid from the state funds shall be sold upon sealed bids, after advertisement as may be prescribed by the president of said university, and the proceeds of such sales shall be paid to the state treasurer to be credited and added to said predatory animal fund; provided, that any specimens so taken may be presented free of charge to the New Mexico museum or any state institution.
No bounty shall be collected from any county for animals taken by hunters or trappers operating under such agreements, and scalps of animals so taken shall be destroyed or cancelled or marked in such manner that they cannot be used by any other person for collecting of bounty.
History:
Laws 1919, ch. 119, § 3; C.S. 1929, § 4-1303; 1941 Comp., § 49-1703; 1953 Comp., § 47-16-3; Laws 1977, ch. 247, § 158.
ANNOTATIONS
Compiler's notes.
— Laws 1949, ch. 57, § 4, provides for the control of expenditures under the act by the president of New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts (New Mexico state university), for the sale of furs taken by persons under the act and for a $50,000 limit on expenditures. For similar provisions,
see
Laws 1929, ch. 153, § 3; Laws 1931, ch. 57, § 3; Laws 1939, ch. 26, § 3 and Laws 1941, ch. 44, § 3.
See
also Laws 1945, ch. 57, § 4.
For the bureau of biological survey,
see
compiler's notes to 77-15-1 NMSA 1978.
The 1977 amendment
substituted, in the first paragraph, "New Mexico state university" for "said college" and "department of finance and administration" for "state auditor" in the first sentence and "secretary of finance and administration" for "state auditor" in the second sentence and, in the second paragraph, "university" for "college" and "provided" for "Provided."
Payment of earned bounties.
— Where wild animals had been killed and evidence thereof submitted, in contemplation of the bounty provided by Code 1915, §§ 1330, 1333, and certificates of indebtedness thereof had been issued, the repeal of such sections by Laws 1923, ch. 52, § 1 was inoperative as to persons who had already earned the bounty.
Hayner v. Board of Comm'rs
, 1924-NMSC-013, 29 N.M. 311, 222 P. 657.