The commissioner of public lands is authorized to quitclaim to the United States the title to any lands set apart to the state, under grants from the United States through error of the department of the interior or local land office, and which have been patented to other persons or corporations or on which, because of erroneous descriptions, filings have been made, and to select other lands of the United States in lieu thereof.
History: Laws 1913, ch. 37, § 1; Code 1915, § 5261; C.S. 1929, § 132-202; 1941 Comp., § 8-201; 1953 Comp., § 7-2-1.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Authority to quitclaim. — The land commissioner has no authority to quitclaim to the United States unpatented land occupied by a settler. 1913 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 13-1078.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Article 2 - United States Lands
Section 19-2-2 - Jurisdiction; transfer procedure.
Section 19-2-3 - Taxation; civil process; concurrent jurisdiction.
Section 19-2-4 - Application of act.
Section 19-2-5 - New Mexico taxes apply in federal areas.
Section 19-2-6 - [Fort Bayard military reservation; jurisdiction ceded; limitation.]
Section 19-2-7 - [Santa Fe national cemetery; jurisdiction ceded; limitation.]
Section 19-2-9 - [Veterans' administration facility at Fort Bayard; jurisdiction ceded; limitation.]
Section 19-2-10 - Quarai and Abo state monuments; jurisdiction ceded; approval; limitations.
Section 19-2-11 - [Holloman air force base; jurisdiction ceded; limitations.]