Applications to lease or purchase state lands shall be made under oath, and applicants to lease shall, at their own expense, procure appraisements thereof to be made under oath by some disinterested and creditable person or persons familiar therewith. All statements contained in such appraisements, except as to the true value of the land appraised, […]
At any time after sale and prior to the expiration of thirty years from the date of the contract, the purchaser or his successor in interest may pay all or any part of the purchase price due on any contract for purchase of state lands, but no payment shall be accepted, other than the first […]
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1981, ch. 49, § 1, repealed 19-7-11 NMSA 1978, relating to the authorization of payment for the purchase of state lands with state or county bonds, effective March 30, 1981.
That contracts for the purchase of state lands now outstanding shall, upon application of the holders thereof and payment of a fee of four dollars [($4.00)] for each contract of one section or less, and ten cents [($.10)] for each additional section or fraction thereof, be canceled, and new contracts issued under the provisions of […]
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1989, ch. 179, § 2 repealed 19-7-13 NMSA 1978, as enacted by Laws 1912, ch. 82, § 58, relating to sales of lands for Santa Fe and Grant county railroad bond funds, effective June 16, 1989.
Whenever any state lands are sold or leased to a person other than the holder of an existing surface lease and upon which lands there are improvements belonging to such lessee or to another person, the purchaser or subsequent lessee, as the case may be, shall pay to the commissioner of public lands for the […]
The word “improvements” herein shall include appurtenant water rights and all improvements placed upon the land in compliance with Section 19-7-51 NMSA 1978, and shall include those appurtenant water rights and improvements placed upon the land prior to March 1, 1955, whether or not the value be in excess of the amount prescribed by Section […]
Reasonable costs and expenses of appraising improvements on state lands and other costs of sale shall be paid by the purchaser or subsequent lessee. History: 1953 Comp., § 7-8-19.3, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 237, § 3. ANNOTATIONS Cross references. — For appraisement of state lands themselves, see 19-7-1 NMSA 1978. For false swearing in […]
A person in interest aggrieved by the decision of the commissioner in fixing the value of improvements or in collecting costs may appeal to the district court pursuant to the provisions of Section 39-3-1.1 NMSA 1978. History: 1953 Comp., § 7-8-19.4, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 237, § 4; 1998, ch. 55, § 27; 1999, […]
No contract, patent or lease shall be issued until the value of improvements shall be paid unless a good and sufficient corporate or cash bond is filed with the commissioner to insure [ensure] payment upon final determination of value. History: 1953 Comp., § 7-8-19.5, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 237, § 5. ANNOTATIONS Bracketed material. […]
Failure by a purchaser of state lands to comply with the terms and conditions of his contract of purchase shall, at the option of the commissioner, work a forfeiture of such contract after notice as prescribed by Section 19-7-50 NMSA 1978. In case of forfeiture all monies theretofore paid on any such contract shall remain […]
All applications for the purchase of state lands and all applications for leases, whether for grazing, oil and gas, mining or other purposes, shall be made with ink or with typewriter using a record ribbon, upon forms to be prescribed by the commissioner of public lands. All applications shall be signed by original applicant or […]
Any purchaser of state lands under deferred payment contract, not in default as to any payment, may assign all right, title and interest under any such contract; provided, certified copy of the assignment shall be filed with the commissioner before same shall become effective. History: Laws 1912, ch. 82, § 61; Code 1915, § 5239; […]
Whenever any of the state lands shall be valuable or desirable for townsite purposes, the commissioner may cause or permit the same to be subdivided into suitable tracts, or surveyed into lots and blocks, with the usual reservations for streets, alleys and public purposes, and shall cause appraisement of such lands to be made and […]
Should any state lands be valuable or desirable for cemetery or school site purposes, the commissioner may subdivide and sell such lands for such purposes in accordance with law. History: Laws 1912, ch. 82, § 63; Code 1915, § 5241; C.S. 1929, § 132-175; 1941 Comp., § 8-823; 1953 Comp., § 7-8-23. ANNOTATIONS Bracketed material. […]
Where a school section of the state or any part thereof has been used for cemeteries or cemetery purposes prior to January 6, 1912, that part of said section, not exceeding one hundred and sixty (160) acres may be set aside by the commissioner of public lands and forever reserved for such cemetery purposes and […]
Where a school section or any part thereof is used for cemetery purposes under the provisions of the preceding section [19-7-23 NMSA 1978], the management and control thereof is hereby given to the governing body of the city, town or village now using the same for such purpose, but said governing body shall not be […]
State saline lands and state lands known to contain valuable minerals, petroleum or natural gas in paying quantities, and sections of state lands adjoining lands upon which there are producing mines, oil wells or gas wells, or which are known to contain valuable minerals, petroleum or natural gas in paying quantities, shall not be sold, […]
No lands belonging to the state, within the areas to be irrigated from works constructed or controlled by the United States, or its duly authorized agencies, shall hereafter be sold except in conformity with the classification of farm units by the United States, and the title to such lands shall not pass from the state […]
All lands owned by the state of New Mexico shall be subject to lease as provided by law; provided, however, that the commissioner of public lands must give first preference in all cases to any department of the state which has been authorized by the legislature to acquire lands for the purpose of erecting thereon […]
