New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 6 - Drainage Districts; Formation

Section 73-6-1 - Drainage district; petition for; contents. - Whenever twenty-five percent of the adult owners of lands owning...

Section 73-6-2 - [Petition amendment; consolidation.] - The court may at any time permit the petition to...

Section 73-6-3 - [Noncontiguous lands.] - Said territory need not be contiguous, providing that agricultural interests...

Section 73-6-4 - [Petition; hearing; notice.] - On such petition being filed the court or judge thereof...

Section 73-6-5 - [Nonresidents; petition; notice.] - If any of the owners or reputed owners of land...

Section 73-6-6 - [Notice; proof of service.] - The certificates of the clerk of the court, or other...

Section 73-6-7 - [Notice; personal service.] - Personal service of said notice on or service by leaving...

Section 73-6-8 - [Notice; owners not served.] - If it shall be found before the hearing on a...

Section 73-6-9 - [Notice; time of service.] - Said notice shall be served personally or by leaving at...

Section 73-6-10 - [Hearing; failure of service.] - Upon the adjourned day the same proceedings, adjournments, trial, findings...

Section 73-6-11 - [Hearing; objections.] - On the day fixed for hearing on such petition all...

Section 73-6-12 - [Hearing and determination.] - The court shall hear and determine whether or not the...

Section 73-6-13 - [Proof of ownership.] - The affidavit of any three or more of the signers...

Section 73-6-14 - [Petition; deed made to defeat.] - Any deed made for the purpose of establishing or defeating...

Section 73-6-15 - [Petition; purchasers after notice of petition.] - All purchasers of land within any drainage district or proposed...

Section 73-6-16 - [Petition; insufficient signatures.] - If the court, or presiding judge thereof, after hearing any...

Section 73-6-17 - [Finding sufficient number of signers; certificate; calling election for drainage commissioners.] - But if it shall appear that the petition has been...

Section 73-6-18 - [Qualifications of voters; application of general election laws.] - At such election and at all elections held under the...

Section 73-6-19 - [Elected by plurality vote.] - At all elections held under the provisions of this act...

Section 73-6-20 - [Ballots.] - For the first election to be held under the provisions...

Section 73-6-21 - ["Resident freeholder" defined.] - Any person residing within any county in which any portion...

Section 73-6-22 - [Determining and declaring result of election.] - On the second Monday next succeeding the first election provided...

Section 73-6-23 - [Election precincts; polling places; election judges and clerks.] - For the purposes of the first election hereinbefore provided for,...

Section 73-6-24 - [Time for holding second and subsequent elections; commissioners holding over.] - Regular elections of any such district shall be held on...

Section 73-6-25 - [Commissioners; oath; bond; quorum; concurrence of majority.] - Before entering upon their duties, such commissioners shall take and...

Section 73-6-26 - [Appointments to fill expired terms; time; notice.] - Appointments to fill expired terms in the office of drainage...

Section 73-6-27 - [Commissioners; vacancies.] - Vacancies in the board may be filled by such judge...

Section 73-6-28 - [Commissioners; accounts; records; vouchers.] - The commissioners shall keep an accurate record of all moneys...

Section 73-6-29 - [Commissioners; annual report.] - On the first Tuesday of September of each year they...

Section 73-6-30 - [Commissioners; compensation; expenses.] - They shall receive for their services such compensation as the...

Section 73-6-31 - [Commissioners; court to control; contempt.] - They shall at all times be under the control and...

Section 73-6-32 - [Commissioners; bonds; liability.] - Suit may also be brought upon their bonds, in the...

Section 73-6-33 - [Commissioners; organization; examination of lands; report.] - Within ten days after said commissioner [commissioners] shall be elected...

Section 73-6-34 - [Commissioners to report.] - If said proposed work as in the petition described, is...

Section 73-6-35 - [Commissioners; hearing on report.] - Upon the filing of the preliminary report the court or...

Section 73-6-36 - [Commissioners; report; hearing; adjournment.] - Upon the day fixed for hearing upon said report, said...

Section 73-6-37 - [Commissioners; report; remonstrance.] - Any interested party may appear and remonstrate against said report...

Section 73-6-38 - [Lands added to; notice to owners.] - When lands are added to the district the owners thereof...

Section 73-6-39 - [Commissioners report; trial; judgment; costs.] - All issues arising upon said preliminary report shall be tried...

Section 73-6-40 - [Commissioners report; trial; findings; confirmation.] - But if the preliminary report be that the benefits of...

Section 73-6-41 - [Commissioners report; findings final; appeal to Supreme Court.] - Such findings and order shall be final and conclusive unless...

Section 73-6-42 - [Name; boundaries; corporation; powers.] - Upon entering of such order of confirmation of said preliminary...

Section 73-6-43 - [Commissioners; powers.] - The commissioners appointed as aforesaid and their successors in office...

Section 73-6-44 - [Conditions precedent to formation of drainage district.] - All proceedings herein required, prior to the entry of such...