Any person, association or corporation interfering with or injuring or destroying any dam, headgate, weir, benchmark or other appliance for the diversion, carriage, storage, apportionment or measurement of water, or for any hydrographic surveys, or who shall interfere with any person or persons engaged in the discharge of duties connected therewith, shall be guilty of […]
The owner or owners of any ditch, canal or other structure for carrying or storing water, shall construct a substantial bridge where the same crosses any public road, with a passageway not less than fourteen feet wide; or reconstruct the road in a substantial manner and in a convenient location for public travel. Any violation […]
Whenever any appropriator of water has the right-of-way for the storage, diversion or carriage of water, it shall be unlawful to place or maintain any obstruction that shall interfere with the use of the works, or prevent convenient access thereto. Any violations of this section shall be a misdemeanor. History: Laws 1907, ch. 49, § […]
The unauthorized use of water to which another person is entitled, or the willful waste of surface or underground water to the detriment of another or the public, shall be a misdemeanor. It shall also be a misdemeanor to begin to carry on any construction of works for storing or carrying water until after the […]
It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation to divert the waters of any public stream in New Mexico for use for reservoirs or other purposes in a valley other than that of any such stream, to the impairment of valid and subsisting prior appropriations of such waters. Any violator of this section, […]
All violations of the provisions of this article, declared to be misdemeanors, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor less than ten dollars ($10.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and any justice [magistrate] court of the […]
