That the management and control of the community land grants within the county of Dona Ana, in the state of New Mexico, and the legal and equitable title to all the lands within the exterior boundaries of such grants to which any colony or community is entitled on February 23, 1905, are hereby vested in […]
That the regular meetings of the board of trustees shall be held on the first Monday of each alternate month. Special meetings may be held at any time on the call of the president of the board. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, save as hereinbefore provided. […]
That each of such boards shall be a body corporate, having full power to sue and be sued, besides the other powers hereinafter mentioned. In all suits the said body corporate shall be styled, “The Board of Trustees of the . . . . . . . . . . Community Grant,” and all process […]
That all members of such boards of trustees shall be inhabitants of, and the owners of lands within the limits of the particular grant for which they shall have been elected trustees. History: Laws 1905, ch. 21, § 3; Code 1915, § 820; C.S. 1929, § 29-303; 1941 Comp., § 9-503; 1953 Comp., § 8-5-3. […]
That upon the petition of twenty or more inhabitants of, and owners of lands within, any one of such land grants, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of the said county of Dona Ana to order an election to be held for the choice of a board of trustees for […]
That within thirty days of the expiration of the terms of office of any such board of trustees, it shall be the duty of such board to call an election for the choice of their successors, to fix the time and place for the holding of the same, to appoint qualified persons to act as […]
At all the elections held under the provisions of this article, each actual inhabitant of the grant and owner of land therein, who has reached the age of majority, shall be entitled to cast one vote in person, and the five persons receiving the highest number of votes cast at any such election shall be […]
That the board of directors shall choose a president and a secretary-and-treasurer. The president shall be chosen from the members of the board, shall preside at all meetings of the board and act as the executive officer thereof. He shall sign all warrants for the payment of money and all deeds and other instruments of […]
That said board of trustees shall have the following powers: A. to control and manage the land grant and prescribe rules and regulations for the administration thereof; to prohibit all trespasses and depredations upon the unallotted and unappropriated lands within the grant; to institute actions of ejectment to recover the possession of any such unallotted […]
That no sale, mortgage, lease or other disposition of the unallotted and unappropriated lands within the grant, authorized under the provisions of this article, nor any confirmation or conveyance, as provided in Section 49-5-8 NMSA 1978, shall take effect or become operative until after the regular meeting of the board of trustees held next after […]
