That the board of water commissioners be and the same is hereby abolished, and that any and all records of said board shall, when this act becomes effective, be placed for safekeeping into the custody of the state engineer, provided that appeals pending before said board, together with all papers and records of same shall be transferred to the district court of the county wherein the work or point of desired appropriation, referred to in any such pending appeal or appeals, is situated, to be considered and disposed of by such district court as an appeal, as hereinbefore provided for.
History: Laws 1923, ch. 28, § 4; C.S. 1929, § 151-176; 1941 Comp., § 77-211; 1953 Comp., § 75-2-11.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 2 Am. Jur. 2d Administrative Law § 24 et seq.
Incompatibility of offices of colonel and water commissioner, 26 A.L.R. 144, 132 A.L.R. 254, 147 A.L.R. 1419, 148 A.L.R. 1399, 150 A.L.R. 1444.
81A C.J.S. States § 141.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Section 72-2-1 - Appointment; removal; qualifications; duties; office; private practice prohibited.
Section 72-2-2 - Assistants; salary.
Section 72-2-3 - [Oath of office; bond.]
Section 72-2-4 - Payment of accounts.
Section 72-2-5 - Annual report.
Section 72-2-6 - Fees; amount; disposition.
Section 72-2-7 - [Records to be public; certified copies as evidence.]
Section 72-2-9 - [Supervising apportionment of waters.]
Section 72-2-9.1 - Priority administration; expedited water marketing and leasing; state engineer.
Section 72-2-9.2 - Office of the state engineer; devices to measure river water.
Section 72-2-10 - [Legal advisers; duties.]
Section 72-2-11 - [Board of water commissioners abolished; pending appeals.]
Section 72-2-12 - Hearing examiners.
Section 72-2-13 - Depositions, written interrogatories and administrative conferences.
Section 72-2-14 - Subpoena power.
Section 72-2-16 - Hearings required before appeal.
Section 72-2-17 - Hearing; notice; conduct; record.
Section 72-2-18 - State engineer; enforcement; compliance orders; penalty.
Section 72-2-19 - Advanced mapping fund; created.
Section 72-2-20 - Notice of applications; online posting; notice by publication; objections.