New Mexico Statutes
Article 2 - State Parks Division
Section 16-2-16 - Procedure for transfer of park lands or recreational areas to state agencies, institutions or public bodies.

Upon receipt of written notification from the secretary containing a recommendation for transfer to a named grantee, a recitation of the nominal consideration and such reservations and conditions of transfer of specifically described lands as may be required, the commissioner of public lands, in conformity with the notification, shall execute and deliver to the named state educational institution or other state governmental agency, as grantee, a good and sufficient quitclaim deed conveying all the right, title and interest of the state in and to the lands described in the notification. The commissioner of public lands shall, in due course, transfer any receipts derived as consideration actually paid in the transaction to the state treasurer for credit to the proper fund.
History: 1941 Comp., § 4-121, enacted by Laws 1951, ch. 45, § 2; 1953 Comp., § 4-9-15; Laws 1963, ch. 98, § 15; 1977, ch. 254, § 26; 1987, ch. 234, § 20.
The 1987 amendment, effective July 1, 1987, near the beginning of the first sentence substituted "secretary" for "state park and recreation director," at the end of the second sentence substituted "treasurer for credit to the proper fund" for "park and recreation fund" and made minor changes in language throughout the section.

Structure New Mexico Statutes

New Mexico Statutes

Chapter 16 - Parks, Recreation and Fairs

Article 2 - State Parks Division

Section 16-2-1 - Repealed.

Section 16-2-2 - State parks advisory board created; membership; compensation; duties.

Section 16-2-2.1 - State park volunteers.

Section 16-2-3 - Meaning of designations.

Section 16-2-4 - Repealed.

Section 16-2-5 - Director of division; qualifications.

Section 16-2-6 - Repealed.

Section 16-2-7 - Rules and regulations.

Section 16-2-7.1 - Free state park passes to disabled veterans.

Section 16-2-8 - Repealed.

Section 16-2-9 - Concessions in parks; contracts; board of finance approval.

Section 16-2-9.1 - State park passes; vendors.

Section 16-2-10 - Secretary and employees prohibited from having interest in concessions.

Section 16-2-11 - Acquisition of lands for park and recreational purposes; criteria.

Section 16-2-12 - Acquisition of federal land for park and recreational uses.

Section 16-2-13 - Title to park and recreational lands; acceptance.

Section 16-2-14 - Prior donations and grants accepted and confirmed.

Section 16-2-15 - Secretary's power to authorize transfer of park lands.

Section 16-2-15.1 - Elephant Butte lake lease lot lands; release of lease with federal government.

Section 16-2-16 - Procedure for transfer of park lands or recreational areas to state agencies, institutions or public bodies.

Section 16-2-17 - Repealed.

Section 16-2-18 - Acceptance of donations of money, equipment or material.

Section 16-2-19 - State park and recreation revenues; source and disbursement.

Section 16-2-19.1 - Motorboat fuel tax fund; appropriation.

Section 16-2-20 - Short title.

Section 16-2-21 - Purpose of act.

Section 16-2-22 - Bonding authority.

Section 16-2-23 - Form of bonds.

Section 16-2-24 - Sale of bonds.

Section 16-2-25 - Proceeds from sale of bonds.

Section 16-2-26 - Construction.

Section 16-2-27 - Tax exemptions.

Section 16-2-28 - Refunding.

Section 16-2-29 - Security; retirement of bonds.

Section 16-2-30 - Police powers vested in director and state parks employees designated by the secretary.

Section 16-2-31 - Repealed.

Section 16-2-32 - Criminal offenses; penalty.

Section 16-2-33 - State parks division penalty assessment misdemeanors; definition; schedule of assessments.