New Mexico Statutes
Article 4 - Surveys, Investigations and Adjudication of Rights
Section 72-4-6 - [Determinations and findings prior to supplying water.]

Prior to supplying any water, the board of county commissioners must determine and find the following: the amount necessary in each year to pay the principal of and the interest on the water revenue bonds proposed to be issued to finance such system; the amount necessary to be paid each year into any reserve funds which the board of county commissioners may deem it advisable to establish in connection with the retirement of the proposed water revenue bonds and the maintenance of the system. The determinations and findings of the board of county commissioners required to be made in the preceding sentence shall be set forth in the proceedings under which the proposed water revenue bonds are to be issued and such findings shall be the basis for determining the cost of the water to the inhabitant consumers.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-4-1.5, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 286, § 5.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 234.

Structure New Mexico Statutes

New Mexico Statutes

Chapter 72 - Water Law

Article 4 - Surveys, Investigations and Adjudication of Rights

Section 72-4-1 - County drains; duty of state engineer; preliminary surveys; eminent domain; surveys on private property; damage.

Section 72-4-2 - [Authority to acquire water rights for development of county water supply system.]

Section 72-4-3 - [Authority to establish county water supply system; purpose.]

Section 72-4-4 - Water revenue bonds; limitations; conditions of issuance.

Section 72-4-5 - [Water revenue bonds; security; restrictions and limitations.]

Section 72-4-6 - [Determinations and findings prior to supplying water.]

Section 72-4-7 - [Sale of water revenue bonds; application of proceeds; cost of acquiring system.]

Section 72-4-8 - Water system cost paid from bond proceeds only.

Section 72-4-9 - [Water revenue bonds shall be legal investments.]

Section 72-4-10 - [Water revenue bonds, income, security instruments, agreements and revenue exempt from taxation.]

Section 72-4-11 - [Election by voters prior to issuance of bonds not required.]

Section 72-4-12 - [Notice, consent or approval by governmental body or public officer not required prior to issuance of bonds.]

Section 72-4-13 - Hydrographic survey of state stream systems; duty of state engineer; dam and reservoir sites; cooperation with United States.

Section 72-4-14 - [Cooperation with federal reclamation service; federal projects.]

Section 72-4-15 - [Determination of water rights; copies of hydrographic surveys; suits to determine right of appropriation.]

Section 72-4-16 - [Reports of hydrographic surveys; filing with state engineer; copies as evidence.]

Section 72-4-17 - Suits for determination of water rights; parties; hydrographic survey; jurisdiction; unknown claimants.

Section 72-4-18 - [Suits concerning water rights; submission of facts to jury or referee.]

Section 72-4-19 - [Adjudication of rights; decree filed with state engineer; contents of decree.]

Section 72-4-20 - [Water rights on interstate streams in litigation; duty of state engineer; exception.]