As soon as practical and within thirty days after the district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of the court shall transmit to the secretary of state and to the county clerk of each of the counties having lands in the district certified copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating the district. The copies shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and copies shall also be filed in the office of the county clerk of each county in which a part of the district may be, where they shall become permanent records. The clerk in each county shall receive a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for filing and preserving the copies. The secretary of state shall receive a fee of five dollars ($5.00) for filing and preserving the copies.
History: Laws 1931, ch. 97, § 12; 1941 Comp., § 77-1312; 1953 Comp., § 75-13-12; 2013, ch. 75, § 44.
The 2013 amendment, effective July 1, 2013, required the clerk of the court to transmit to the secretary of state the findings and decree of the court incorporating the district; added the title of the section; in the first sentence, after "transmit to the", deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state"'; in the second sentence, after "filed in the office of the", deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state"; and in the fourth sentence, at the beginning of the sentence, deleted "state corporation commission" and added "secretary of state".
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 1 - Artesian Conservancy Districts
Section 73-1-1 - [Purpose of districts.]
Section 73-1-2 - [Lands included in district; two or more artesian basins in one district.]
Section 73-1-3 - [Petition; signers; contents of petition.]
Section 73-1-4 - [Correction of errors in petition.]
Section 73-1-5 - [More than one petition for same district.]
Section 73-1-6 - Signing of petition.
Section 73-1-7 - [Tax roll as prima facie evidence of property ownership and value.]
Section 73-1-8 - [Bond; sufficiency; failure to execute additional bond when required.]
Section 73-1-9 - [Hearing; time and place; publication of notice.]
Section 73-1-10 - [Filing of objections; hearing as advanced cause.]
Section 73-1-12 - Recording of findings and decree; fees.
Section 73-1-14 - [Inclusion of additional lands after extension of basin boundaries.]
Section 73-1-15 - [District court procedure; notice.]
Section 73-1-16 - [Directors; term of office; vacancies on board.]
Section 73-1-17 - [Board of directors; oath of office; officers; seal; records; bylaws.]
Section 73-1-18 - [Majority to constitute quorum; concurrence of majority.]
Section 73-1-19 - [Secretary; duties; board of directors; powers; expenses.]
Section 73-1-20 - [Program of water conservation; prevention of leaking wells.]
Section 73-1-21 - Tax roll based on needed improvements; limitation.
Section 73-1-22 - Assessment and collection; levy to be property lien; time of payment.
Section 73-1-23 - [Loans in anticipation of taxes; repayment.]
Section 73-1-24 - [Underground waters.]
Section 73-1-26 - [Right of conservancy district to protest interference; appeal to district court.]