New Mexico Statutes
Article 9 - Irrigation Districts
Section 73-9-15 - [Meetings of directors; quorum; concurrence; records; entry on lands; acquisition of property; tax exemption.]

The board of directors shall hold a regular quarterly meeting in their office on the first Tuesday in January, April, July and October of each year and such special meetings as may be required for the proper transaction of business. All special meetings shall be called by the president of the board, or any two directors. All meetings of the board must be made public, and two members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and on all questions requiring a vote there shall be a concurrence of at least two members of said board. All records of the board must be open to the inspection of any elector during business hours. The board, its agents and employees, shall have the right to enter upon any land in the district to make surveys and to locate and construct any canal or canals and the necessary laterals. Said board shall also have the right to acquire all lands, water rights, franchises and other property necessary for the construction, use, maintenance, repair and improvement of its canals, ditches, reservoirs and waterworks; and shall also have the right by purchase or condemnation to acquire rights-of-way for the construction or enlargement of any of its ditches, canals or reservoirs, also lands for reservoir sites.
The title to all property acquired under the provisions of this act shall immediately and by operation of law vest in such irrigation district, in its corporate name, and such property shall be held for the uses and purposes set forth in this act, and shall be exempt from all taxation.
History: Laws 1919, ch. 41, § 13; C.S. 1929, § 73-213; 1941 Comp., § 77-2113; 1953 Comp., § 75-22-13.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler's notes. — The term "this act" refers to Laws 1919, ch. 41, §§ 1 to 57, effective March 10, 1919, the provisions of which are compiled as 73-9-1 to 73-9 6, 73-9-10 to 73-9-19, 73-9-22, 73-9-24 and 73-9-26 to 73-9-62 NMSA 1978.
Director's acts not voided by informality. — Where all members of the board of directors of an irrigation district are present at a meeting, the acts done are not void although the meeting was not formally "called." Davy v. McNeill, 1925-NMSC-040, 31 N.M. 7, 240 P. 482.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Irrigation §§ 57, 70 to 72.

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