New Mexico Statutes
Article 4 - County Highways in General
Section 67-4-2 - [County commissioners succeed to powers and duties of county road superintendents.]

Until the legislature shall otherwise provide the several boards of county commissioners shall succeed to all the powers and duties of the county road superintendents, and all public property in the possession of or under the control of said county road superintendents shall, within fifteen days after the approval of this act [this section], be turned over and delivered to the several boards of county commissioners, and said county road superintendents shall within fifteen days after the approval of this act, make a correct and detailed report to said boards of county commissioners of all pending work, contracts and unpaid accounts or claims due on account of any unfinished work or pending contract or contracts. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to invalidate or repudiate any obligations, contracts or indebtedness lawfully made or created under the provisions of said Chapter 99 of the Session Laws of 1919, but any such contracts or obligations shall be fulfilled and any such indebtedness shall be paid and the payment thereof shall be provided for by the levy of taxes at the time and in the manner contemplated by the laws under which such contracts or obligations were made and such indebtedness created.
History: Laws 1921, ch. 11, § 2; C.S. 1929, § 64-501; 1941 Comp., § 58-301a; 1953 Comp., § 55-3-2.
Compiler's notes. — Laws 1919, ch. 99, referred to in this section, was repealed by Laws 1921, ch. 11, § 1.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 56 Am. Jur. 2d Municipal Corporations, Counties and Other Political Subdivisions § 123.
20 C.J.S. Counties § 63.

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