The members of the board of directors other than the president shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed five dollars [($5.00)] per day while attending meetings or otherwise necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties and their actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in official business. The president of said board shall receive as compensation not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars [($150)] per annum for each ten thousand acres of land or major fraction thereof included within the district, said compensation to be set by the board of directors, and his actual and necessary traveling expenses while engaged in official business. No director or officer named in this act shall in any manner, be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board, or in the profits to be derived therefrom; nor shall receive any bonus, gratuity or bribe, and for any violation of this provision such officer shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and such conviction shall work a forfeiture of his office, and he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years.
History: Laws 1919, ch. 20, § 30; C.S. 1929, § 73-131; Laws 1937, ch. 74, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 77-2216; 1953 Comp., § 75-23-16.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler's notes. — For the meaning of the term "this act", see compiler's notes to 73-10-1 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Irrigation § 96.
94 C.J.S. Waters § 320.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Section 73-10-2 - [Water users under community ditches; voting power unaffected.]
Section 73-10-4 - [Publications to be in English and Spanish.]
Section 73-10-5 - Boundaries set by petition; divisions; election call; officers.
Section 73-10-7 - Districts 25,000 acres or less; qualified electors.
Section 73-10-9 - [First election of directors; biennial elections thereafter.]
Section 73-10-10 - [Election of officers; oath; bonds of directors.]
Section 73-10-11 - [Office of directors; notice of election; judges; time and place.]
Section 73-10-12 - [Oaths of judges; opening and closing of polls; returns.]
Section 73-10-13 - Absent voting permitted.
Section 73-10-15 - [Statement of results; certificates of election; vacancy in office of director.]
Section 73-10-20 - [Legal status of irrigation district; conveyances; court proceedings.]
Section 73-10-21 - [Plan for construction; advertising for bids; contractors bonds.]
Section 73-10-22 - [Rights-of-way over private property; eminent domain; state lands.]
Section 73-10-24 - [Water supply inadequate; distribution on alternate days.]
Section 73-10-25 - [Preservation of prior rights.]
Section 73-10-26 - [Change of boundaries; effect; assent of secretary of the interior.]
Section 73-10-27 - [Petition for inclusion of additional lands.]
Section 73-10-29 - [Hearing on petition for including lands.]
Section 73-10-34 - Authorization to sign petition or protest.
Section 73-10-35 - [Redivision of district after addition of lands; election of directors.]
Section 73-10-36 - [Exclusion of lands; status of district unaffected.]
Section 73-10-37 - [Petition to exclude lands; description of lands; acknowledgment.]
Section 73-10-39 - [Hearing on petition for excluding lands; objections.]
Section 73-10-40 - [Order granting or denying petition for excluding land; protest of electors.]
Section 73-10-41 - [Petition for exclusion of land approved; filing order and new plat.]
Section 73-10-42 - [Redivision of district after exclusion of lands; election of directors.]
Section 73-10-43 - [Petition for dissolution of district; notice of election; ballots.]
Section 73-10-47 - [Employees' pensions; group insurance; employers' liability insurance.]
Section 73-10-49 - Special water users' association; certificate of organization.
Section 73-10-50 - Special water users' association; organizational status; officers.