New Mexico Statutes
Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts
Section 73-12-27 - Compensation of board; members may not be interested in any contract.

The board of directors shall each receive compensation at the rate of two and one-half dollars ($2.50) per day while attending meetings, and their actual and necessary expenses while engaged in official business. The salary of the secretary shall not exceed eight hundred dollars ($800) per annum. No director or any officer named in this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978] 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 such director or officer receive any bonus, gratuity or bribe; and for any violation of this provision any such director or officer shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit his office, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exceeding five years nor less than one year.
History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 27; C.S. 1929, § 73-727; 1941 Comp., § 77-2427; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-27.

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New Mexico Statutes

Chapter 73 - Special Districts

Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts

Section 73-12-1 - Majority of the resident freeholders may propose district.

Section 73-12-2 - Petition, where filed and contents; definition of term "resident freeholders"; security for costs.

Section 73-12-3 - Notice of hearing on petition to be published.

Section 73-12-4 - Petition hearing; objections; boundaries; election; appeals.

Section 73-12-5 - Notice of election; qualification of electors; election procedure.

Section 73-12-6 - Canvass of votes, by board of county commissioners.

Section 73-12-7 - Regular elections of district; oath of office and bond of directors.

Section 73-12-8 - Office of board; subsequent elections.

Section 73-12-9 - The election board; oath of judges; polls kept open.

Section 73-12-10 - Returns canvassed by board of directors.

Section 73-12-11 - Secretary to certify results of election to county clerk.

Section 73-12-12 - Organization of board, its powers, its duties; employment of engineers; rules and regulations; report on water supply and engineering plans; when bonds may be used in payment; when contracts must be ratified by electors; uniform ra...

Section 73-12-13 - Regular and special meetings of board; records of board to be kept open; rights-of-way; right to acquire oil or gas for power; title to property; exemption from taxation.

Section 73-12-14 - Acquire property and rights for district; actions in court; legality of organization of district presumed after one year.

Section 73-12-15 - Determining cost; bond election; notice; conduct; bond terms and conditions; subsequent issues.

Section 73-12-16 - Sale of bonds; refunding bonds; use of bonds.

Section 73-12-17 - How revenue raised to pay bonds; service charges within district to be uniform; may use highways.

Section 73-12-18 - Certifying requirements to board of county commissioners each year; county commissioners may act [; duties of county treasurer; delinquent accounts; special assessments; disbursements]

Section 73-12-19 - Duties of county assessor.

Section 73-12-20 - Board of county commissioners to fix rate per-acre levy.

Section 73-12-21 - Duties of county treasurer.

Section 73-12-22 - Revenue laws of state to govern; may refuse service to delinquents.

Section 73-12-23 - Construction and material contracts to be let to lowest bidder.

Section 73-12-24 - Payment of claim; when warrants to issue; claims to be verified; record to be kept.

Section 73-12-25 - [Service charges to pay operation and maintenance; tax levy; employment of electrician or mechanic.]

Section 73-12-26 - Right of eminent domain.

Section 73-12-27 - Compensation of board; members may not be interested in any contract.

Section 73-12-28 - Board of directors have no power to incur debt other than provided in this act.

Section 73-12-29 - Manner of distribution of power or water.

Section 73-12-30 - Prior water rights not affected.

Section 73-12-31 - Boundaries may be changed, but such change shall not affect obligations incurred.

Section 73-12-32 - Petition for inclusion of land.

Section 73-12-33 - Notice of application for inclusion of land to be published.

Section 73-12-34 - Hearing on petition for inclusion of land.

Section 73-12-35 - Terms on which lands may be included.

Section 73-12-36 - Action of board on petition to include land; order describing new boundaries; electors may protest.

Section 73-12-37 - Board to transmit order and plat of new boundaries to county clerk.

Section 73-12-38 - Authority to sign petition of protest.

Section 73-12-39 - Board may redivide district for election purposes [after inclusion of land].

Section 73-12-40 - Land may be excluded from district.

Section 73-12-41 - Owner shall file petition for exclusion.

Section 73-12-42 - Publish notice of petition for exclusion.

Section 73-12-43 - Board shall consider petition for exclusion.

Section 73-12-44 - Board shall act on petition for exclusion.

Section 73-12-45 - Order making change and plat to be transmitted to county clerk.

Section 73-12-46 - Board may redivide district for election purposes [after exclusion of land].

Section 73-12-47 - Supervision of electrical and mechanical appliances; schedules for use of power; regulations of quantity of water to be pumped.

Section 73-12-48 - District shall pay tax on gross revenue derived from sales of surplus power.

Section 73-12-49 - Petition for dissolution of district; election thereon.

Section 73-12-50 - Vote on dissolution to be canvassed.

Section 73-12-51 - Confirmation proceedings may be brought.

Section 73-12-52 - Petition to be filed in district court.

Section 73-12-53 - Court to fix time for hearing and publish notice thereof.

Section 73-12-54 - Provisions of Civil Code shall apply; effect of findings of court.

Section 73-12-55 - The court's findings of fact and conclusions of law; judgment res judicata.

Section 73-12-56 - ["Electrical district" defined.]

Section 73-12-57 - Provisions of Chapter 20, Acts of 1925, relating to certification board, shall apply to this act.