New Mexico Statutes
Article 18 - Conservancy Districts; Reclamation Contracts
Section 73-18-12 - Land disposal contracts authorized.

Contracts made by contracting districts, or landowners within contracting districts, for the purpose of limiting and controlling the size of land holdings entitled to receive water and providing for the disposition of lands in excess of such holdings, and of providing the manner of application of proceeds in the case of sales of district lands, in conformance with the provisions of the reclamation law, are hereby authorized and declared to be in accordance with the public policy of this state.
History: Laws 1939, ch. 148, § 12; 1941 Comp., § 77-3112; 1953 Comp., § 75-32-12.
Compiler's notes. — For the reclamation law, which includes the act of congress of June 17, 1902 and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, see 43 U.S.C. § 371 et seq.
Adoption of reclamation statutes by reference to the title of the federal Reclamation Act is not violative of N.M. Const., art. IV, § 18, where these reclamation statutes are not a necessary part of the act in which they are adopted. Middle Rio Grande Water Users Ass'n v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dist., 1953-NMSC-035, 57 N.M. 287, 258 P.2d 391.
Excess acreage limitation is not confiscation of water user's land. Middle Rio Grande Water Users Ass'n v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dist., 1953-NMSC-035, 57 N.M. 287, 258 P.2d 391 (1953).

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