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Section 73-2-1 - [Right of construction; damages.] - All the inhabitants of the state of New Mexico shall...
Section 73-2-2 - [Condemnation of lands.] - If the owner or owners of lands, where a new...
Section 73-2-3 - [Taking of lands for construction.] - In case a community of people desire to construct a...
Section 73-2-4 - [Preference right for irrigation; obstruction.] - No inhabitant of this state shall have the right to...
Section 73-2-5 - Ditch over land of another; easement; right of servient owner; penalty. - A. Hereafter in all cases where there has been a...
Section 73-2-6 - [Ancient ditches protected.] - The course of ditches or acequias established prior to July...
Section 73-2-7 - [Ownership; right to water.] - All acequias, public or private, when completed, shall be the...
Section 73-2-8 - [Management of ditches crossing county line.] - Where any acequia or ditch, public or private, passes from...
Section 73-2-9 - [Acequias declared public.] - All rivers and streams of water in this state, known...
Section 73-2-10 - [Ownership of plants on banks.] - All plants of any description growing on the banks of...
Section 73-2-11 - [Community ditches made corporations; ditches taking water from common source.] - All community ditches or acequias shall for the purposes of...
Section 73-2-12 - Officers, election, bonds and vacancies in certain counties. - The officers of such community ditches or acequias shall consist...
Section 73-2-13 - [Vacancies in office of commissioner.] - In case a vacancy shall occur among the commissioners of...
Section 73-2-14 - Ditch elections; votes. - The election for acequia or community ditch officers under this...
Section 73-2-15 - [Failure to hold election; calling of special election.] - In case no election shall be held of commissioners of...
Section 73-2-16 - [Disqualifications.] - It shall be prohibited to elect or appoint as mayordomo...
Section 73-2-17 - [Disqualifications.] - All appointments made in conflict with the preceding section [73-2-16...
Section 73-2-18 - [Pay of mayordomo.] - The pay and other perquisites of the mayordomos shall be...
Section 73-2-19 - [Mayordomo; not to lease lands.] - It shall be unlawful for any mayordomo or mayordomos of...
Section 73-2-20 - [Mayordomo not to lease lands; penalty.] - Any violation of the preceding section [73-2-19 NMSA 1978] shall...
Section 73-2-21 - Commissioners' powers and duties; mayordomo's duties. - A. The commissioners shall: (1) assess fatigue work or tasks...
Section 73-2-22 - [Acequia and community ditch associations; borrowing money; contracting indebtedness; security for payment.] - All acequia and community ditch associations are authorized to borrow...
Section 73-2-22.1 - Acequia and community ditch associations; additional powers; water rights acquisition; nonforfeiture. - A. Any acequia or community ditch association has the power...
Section 73-2-23 - [Reimbursement of commissioner's expenses.] - The commissioner of each acequia shall be entitled to actual...
Section 73-2-24 - [Maximum charge in lieu of fatigue work; excepted counties.] - That hereafter in this state the commissioners of community ditches...
Section 73-2-25 - Persons delinquent not to use water; penalty. - No person who has, after due notice, failed or refused...
Section 73-2-26 - Actions for collection of assessments. - A. Whenever any person, after due notice, has failed to...
Section 73-2-27 - [Community ditches defined.] - The provisions of these sections shall apply only to such...
Section 73-2-28 - Acequia and community ditch associations. - Acequia and community ditch associations are political subdivisions of this...
Section 73-2-28.1 - Acequias and community ditch associations; insurance coverage. - Officers, volunteers and employees of acequias and community ditch associations...
Section 73-2-29 - [Improper conduct of mayordomo or commissioner; removal from office; temporary appointment of successor.] - If any mayordomo or commissioner of any such ditch or...
Section 73-2-30 - [Duty to furnish laborers.] - It shall be the duty of the proprietors to furnish,...
Section 73-2-31 - Failure to furnish laborers. - If any proprietor of any land irrigated by any such...
Section 73-2-32 - [Disposition of fines.] - All fines and forfeitures recovered for the use and benefit...
Section 73-2-33 - [Duty to work.] - All owners of tillable lands shall labor on public ditches...
Section 73-2-34 - Common labor; failure to work. - All persons interested in a common ditch or acequia, be...
Section 73-2-35 - [Obligation to work continues until completion.] - Every person or persons, being tillers of irrigated lands, who...
Section 73-2-36 - [Duty to furnish laborers; mayordomos to superintend work.] - If any number of laborers, or any person thereof, having...
Section 73-2-37 - [Penalty for abandoning work.] - If any owners of lands, or lessees thereof, shall attempt...
Section 73-2-38 - [Labor to be in proportion to land ownership.] - As the excavations of such acequias, and in the first...
Section 73-2-39 - [Duty to furnish laborers; duty of absent landowner.] - Every owner or tenant of irrigable lands, irrigated by any...
Section 73-2-40 - [Failure to furnish laborers; penalty.] - The penalties on those who shall fail to supply the...
Section 73-2-41 - Indians; rights and duties. - The different Indians residing within the state shall be subject...
Section 73-2-42 - Blind persons; free irrigation. - The commissioners of any community ditch in New Mexico, shall...
Section 73-2-43 - [Bridges across roads.] - Mayordomos of public and community ditches, shall construct to the...
Section 73-2-44 - [Payment for bridges.] - For the purpose of constructing such bridges, the respective mayordomos...
Section 73-2-45 - [Persons delinquent for bridges not to use waters.] - Every person failing or refusing to pay his share for...
Section 73-2-46 - [Mayordomo failure to perform duties; penalty.] - Any mayordomo who through negligence or any other cause whatsoever,...
Section 73-2-47 - [Several ditches from one stream; joint meeting of commissioners.] - It shall be the duty of all the ditch commissioners...
Section 73-2-48 - [Organization; rules and regulations.] - In the meeting of said ditch commissioners, a majority of...
Section 73-2-49 - [Distribution of water.] - The said apportionment and distribution of the water shall be...
Section 73-2-50 - [Neglect of duty; penalty.] - If any superintendent or water commissioner, neglects or refuses to...
Section 73-2-51 - [Not applicable on Rio Grande.] - Nothing in the four preceding sections [73-2-47 to 73-2-50 NMSA...
Section 73-2-52 - [Spillways; place; work on excess water.] - Whenever 10 [ten] or more of the landowners of any...
Section 73-2-53 - [Degaguas; irrigation from; irrigation with excess water; subject to regular payment; use without consent of mayordomo; penalty.] - The owners of irrigable land, situate in the margin of...
Section 73-2-54 - [Joint spillways or degaguas; use of water without consent; penalty.] - When two or more public ditches drain their excess of...
Section 73-2-55 - [Joint spillways or degaguas; use of water; authority of majority of mayordomos.] - The majority of the mayordomos of said ditches of the...
Section 73-2-55.1 - Water banking; acequias and community ditches. - An acequia or community ditch may establish a water bank...
Section 73-2-56 - [Change in location, extension or reconstruction of ditch; consent of water users; expense.] - The commissioners of any community ditch may alter, change the...
Section 73-2-57 - [Crossing lands in reconstruction; compensation; determination; procedure.] - Should they deem it necessary, the mayordomo may cut through...
Section 73-2-58 - [Appraisers; oath.] - Whenever the three experts shall be appointed as appraisers, before...
Section 73-2-59 - [Appraisement; notice to landowners; contents; service; return.] - Before proceeding to examine the land or lands over which...
Section 73-2-60 - [Report of appraisers; contents.] - Whenever any land or lands of any person or persons...
Section 73-2-61 - [Payment of appraised value; right to possession; forcible entry and detainer.] - The parties interested shall possess the right of property in...
Section 73-2-62 - [Appeal from appraisement to district court.] - Any person or persons aggrieved by the amount of damages...
Section 73-2-63 - [Change in place of diversion; permit unnecessary.] - It shall not be necessary for the officers of public...
Section 73-2-64 - Interference with ditch; illegal water use; penalty; failure to prosecute; injunctive relief. - A. A person shall not, contrary to the order of...
Section 73-2-65 - Acequia commission; created; membership; terms. - A. There is created the "acequia commission", which is administratively...
Section 73-2-66 - Powers and duties. - The acequia commission shall: A. provide advice and assist the...
Section 73-2-67 - Legal counsel. - The office of the attorney general shall represent and be...
Section 73-2-68 - Per diem. - The members of the acequia commission shall be paid in...