That any irrigation district organized and existing under and by virtue of Chapter 20, Session Laws of New Mexico 1919, may succeed to all the rights, assets, privileges and immunities, and assume all the obligations, duties and liabilities of any water users' association organized and existing under the laws of New Mexico, by conveyance and simple contract; and any election heretofore or hereafter called and held at which a majority of the members or stockholders of such association voting at such election shall favor or shall have favored such succession and assumption, shall be sufficient authority for the directors of such district and of such association to execute and put into effect such conveyances and such contracts; and no action or defense drawing in question, directly or indirectly, the validity or effectiveness of such transfer, succession or assumption, shall be brought, maintained or set up except within one year from and after the filing for record of any such contract, transfer or conveyance; and in case of any such contract, transfer or conveyance, the same shall be filed for record in the office of the county clerk of the county where the principal office of such association is situate, and where the principal office of such district is situate and also in each county where the real estate is situate belonging to either such district or association.
History: Laws 1921, ch. 39, § 23; C.S. 1929, § 73-177; 1941 Comp., § 77-2243; 1953 Comp., § 75-23-43.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler's notes. — For the compilation of Laws 1919, Chapter 20, see compiler's notes to 73-10-1 NMSA 1978.
Cross references. — For definitions of "irrigation district" and "directors," see 73-11-54 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Irrigation § 62.
94 C.J.S. Waters § 321.
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.