All claims for services rendered, expenses incurred or materials or supplies furnished under the direction of the state engineer and which are payable from the funds appropriated for the prosecution of the work under his direction and supervision, shall be approved by the state engineer and properly vouchered and filed with the secretary of finance and administration, who shall, if he finds the same to have been incurred in accordance with law, audit and allow such claims and issue his warrant on the treasurer in payment thereof.
History: Laws 1907, ch. 49, § 7; Code 1915, § 5660; C.S. 1929, § 151-107; 1941 Comp., § 77-204; 1953 Comp., § 75-2-4; 1977, ch. 247, § 196.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 63A Am. Jur. 2d Public Officers and Employees § 353.
81A C.J.S. States § 229.
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.