Whenever the board of directors for any intercommunity water or natural gas supply association determines, by resolution, that interest or necessity demands the acquisition, construction, repair, extension, improvement or betterment of any water system or natural gas transmission and distribution system, the association is hereby authorized to make and issue revenue bonds, payable solely out of the net income to be derived from the operation of such system, and to pledge irrevocably such income to the payment of the bonds, the proceeds of the bonds to be used solely for the purchasing, acquiring, constructing and making of necessary improvements, extension, repairs and betterments of the systems or for the purchase and acquiring of wells, cisterns, reservoirs or other sources of supply, rights-of-way, pipelines and pumping plants or other machinery necessary for the operation thereof and the land and real estate upon which the same are situated or to be situated.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-27-10, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1981, ch. 203, § 2; 1990, ch. 60, § 9.
The 1990 amendment, effective March 2, 1990, made minor stylistic changes throughout the section.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 28 - Water or Natural Gas Associations
Section 3-28-1 - Water or natural gas associations; powers.
Section 3-28-2 - Intercommunity water or natural gas supply association; directors.
Section 3-28-3 - Certificate of association.
Section 3-28-4 - Acknowledgment and filing of original certificate; recording of copy.
Section 3-28-5 - Powers of association as body corporate.
Section 3-28-6 - Amendment of certificate of incorporation.
Section 3-28-7 - Notice of first meeting.
Section 3-28-8 - Board of directors; powers.
Section 3-28-9 - Officers or agents; manner of appointment.
Section 3-28-10 - Revenue bond issues.
Section 3-28-11 - Terms and provisions of revenue bond issues.
Section 3-28-12 - Resolution for issuance of bond; execution.
Section 3-28-13 - Payment of bonds.
Section 3-28-14 - Refunding authorization; terms.
Section 3-28-14.1 - Publication of notice after adoption of resolutions; limitation of action.
Section 3-28-15 - Financial assistance.
Section 3-28-16 - Establishment of rates or contracts for service; lien against property served.
Section 3-28-17 - Proceeds from bond issues not to be diverted from purpose.
Section 3-28-18 - Violations of act; penalty.
Section 3-28-19 - Eminent domain.
Section 3-28-20 - Associations not subject to utility laws.
Section 3-28-21 - New Mexico public utility commission [public regulation commission] jurisdiction.
Section 3-28-22 - Validation; existing association and outstanding bonds.