2021 New Mexico Statutes
Article 2 - Corporations for Management of Community Land Grants
Section 49-2-10 - [Resolutions for disposition of common lands; effective date; binding effect.]

No resolution providing for the sale, mortgage, lease or other disposition of the common lands of such grant shall take effect or become operative until after the expiration of thirty days next following the date of the meeting at which such resolution was adopted, as provided in Section 7 of this act [49-2-7 NMSA 1978]. If no protest shall be filed before such period of thirty days, as provided in the next succeeding section of this act [49-2-11 NMSA 1978], it shall be the duty of the president and secretary of such board of trustees, in the name of and under the seal of such corporation, to execute the necessary deeds and documents to carry such resolution into effect, and such deeds and documents when so executed shall operate to bind all persons interested in such common lands to the same extent as if each of such persons had separately signed, sealed and executed the same.
History: Laws 1917, ch. 3, § 10; C.S. 1929, § 29-210; 1941 Comp., § 9-210; 1953 Comp., § 8-2-10.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Presumption confirmed land not part of common lands. — Adjudication by grant commissioners that persons were entitled to lands in severalty and granting them paper title gives rise to presumption that it investigated and determined land so confirmed was not part of the common lands. Board of Trustees v. Garcia, 1925-NMSC-028, 32 N.M. 124, 252 P. 478.

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