New Mexico Statutes
Article 5 - Appropriation and Use of Surface Water
Section 72-5-21 - [Recording of permits, decrees and documents; certified copies.]

All permits, decrees and documents granting, defining or limiting water rights and rights of owners of canals, reservoirs and works for conducting, storing or appropriating water in this state shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the property, canal, reservoir or work is situated. When so recorded, copies of such permits, decrees and documents certified by the county clerk shall be admitted in evidence in any court of the state as of equal validity with the original.
History: Laws 1907, ch. 49, § 71; Code 1915, § 5728; C.S. 1929, § 151-177; 1941 Comp., § 77-520; 1953 Comp., § 75-5-20.
Cross references. — For filing and recording of changes of ownership in water rights, see 72-1-2.1 NMSA 1978.
For self-authentication of certified copies of public records, see Paragraph D of Rule 11-902 NMRA.
For proof of official records, see Rule 11-1005 NMRA.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 93 C.J.S. Waters § 176.

Structure New Mexico Statutes

New Mexico Statutes

Chapter 72 - Water Law

Article 5 - Appropriation and Use of Surface Water

Section 72-5-1 - Application for permit; rules; surveys, etc.

Section 72-5-2 - Existing community ditches.

Section 72-5-3 - Application; amendment; refiling.

Section 72-5-4 - Notice; publication.

Section 72-5-5 - Objections to applications; filing of protests; definition of standing.

Section 72-5-5.1 - Purposes.

Section 72-5-6 - Hearing; approval; permit.

Section 72-5-7 - Application; rejection; noncompliance with rules; conservation and public welfare.

Section 72-5-8 - Construction of works; additional time.

Section 72-5-9 - Supervision; inspection; completion of works; alterations.

Section 72-5-10 - [State engineer's certificate of construction.]

Section 72-5-11 - Inspection and correction of unsafe works.

Section 72-5-12 - Failure to comply with state engineer order; penalty.

Section 72-5-13 - [Issuance of license to appropriate water.]

Section 72-5-14 - Time for construction; extension.

Section 72-5-15 - [Common use; enlargement and maintenance of works; lien for costs.]

Section 72-5-16 - [Priority of liens.]

Section 72-5-17 - Excess waters; sale.

Section 72-5-18 - Water allowance.

Section 72-5-19 - [Standards for measuring flow and volume of water.]

Section 72-5-20 - Headgates and measuring devices.

Section 72-5-21 - [Recording of permits, decrees and documents; certified copies.]

Section 72-5-22 - [Transfer of water rights.]

Section 72-5-23 - Water appurtenant to land; change of place of use.

Section 72-5-24 - Change of purpose; change of point of diversion.

Section 72-5-24.1 - Acequias and community ditches; changes in point of diversion or place or purpose of use.

Section 72-5-25 - Emergency; change of point of diversion; procedure.

Section 72-5-26 - [Diversion from watershed or into another stream.]

Section 72-5-27 - Artificial water; no right of continuance of supply.

Section 72-5-28 - Failure to use water; forfeiture.

Section 72-5-29 - [Rights of residents of upper valleys of stream systems.]

Section 72-5-30 - [Effect of return flow above diversion or storage works of other appropriators.]

Section 72-5-31 - [Appeal; prior rights not impaired.]

Section 72-5-32 - Construction and operation of dams; state engineer authority.

Section 72-5-33 - Federal reclamation projects; appropriation for.

Section 72-5-34 - State transportation commission; change of water use; application, notice and hearing.

Section 72-5-35 - State transportation commission; advance water withdrawal.

Section 72-5-36 - State transportation commission; unused water accrual; withdrawal rate; accounting.

Section 72-5-37 - State transportation commission; transfer of water rights to unused water; reversion.

Section 72-5-38 - [State water rights for highway purposes and airports; nonforfeiture for failure to use.]

Section 72-5-39 - Illegal application of water; injunction or other relief.