Except when otherwise specified, as used in this act: A. the term “Conservancy Act” means the Conservancy Act of New Mexico, Chapter 45, Session Laws of 1927 (being Chapter 30, New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1929 Compilation), as amended by Chapter 50, Session Laws of 1931, Chapter 80, Session Laws of 1933 and Chapter 37 and […]
All assessments levied to meet any indebtedness due or to become due to the United States pursuant to the reclamation law, rules and regulations, a reclamation contract or notices or statements issued by the secretary of the interior thereunder, together with all interest on all assessments and penalties for default in payment of the same, […]
A. The board of a contracting district shall cause notice to be given to the commissioner of public lands annually of the amount of assessment to become due on account of lands of the state within the district and the commissioner of public lands shall cause the same to be paid out of any funds […]
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, […]
Every person desiring to receive water for use upon lands in a contracting district during the course of the year shall make application at the office of the district, furnishing therewith a statement in writing of the number of acres intended by him to be irrigated and a statement as near as may be of […]
For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the district in carrying out the purposes of this act [73-18-1 to 73-18-24 NMSA 1978] and in the care, operation, management, repair and improvement of all canals, ditches, reservoirs and related works, including salaries and expenses of officers and employees, or for payment of charges to the […]
All water, the right to the use of which is acquired by a district under a reclamation contract, shall be distributed and apportioned by the district in accordance with the acts of congress and rules and regulations promulgated or approved by the secretary of the interior, and the provisions of said contract in relation thereto. […]
There may be used to pay indebtedness to the United States created by a reclamation contract, as the same may become due, the preliminary fund, construction fund, maintenance fund, guarantee fund or conservation and development fund, or any one or more of said funds, provided for by the Conservancy Act, of any contracting district within […]
In pursuance of a plan or plans made by the bureau of reclamation of the department of the interior and for the accomplishment of the construction, operation or maintenance by the United States of irrigation, drainage or ancillary or incidental works beneficial to a contracting district, the rights, powers and privileges vested in the district […]
In addition to all rights, remedies and securities under this act [73-18-1 to 73-18-24 NMSA 1978] or otherwise available to the United States for the security, enforcement and collection of contract indebtedness created by a reclamation contract, all provisions of the Conservancy Act applicable to the security, enforcement and collection of conservancy bonds, refunding bonds […]
After a reclamation contract has been entered into by a contracting district, except upon the written consent thereto of the secretary of the interior, no change shall be made in the organization or boundaries of such district, either by the exclusion therefrom of district lands, by the inclusion therein of new lands, or by dissolution […]
A. Any district, in addition to all other powers heretofore conferred by law upon districts, is empowered to cooperate with the United States under the reclamation law and in the exercise of such power may enter into a reclamation contract or contracts for the purpose of the construction of irrigation works, including ancillary works and […]
A. The board of any contracting district shall commence special proceedings in and by which the proceedings had for the organization and establishment of the district and in and by which the authorization, due execution and validity of a reclamation contract may be judicially examined, approved and confirmed. Such proceedings shall be brought as to […]
Any reclamation contract heretofore entered into by any district with the United States for any of the purposes enumerated in Section two [73-18-2 NMSA 1978] hereof, together with any and all action taken by or on behalf of a contracting district in pursuance thereof, is hereby ratified, validated and confirmed and such contract is hereby […]
The provisions of Section 2 B [73-18-2 B NMSA 1978] and Section 3 to Section 25 [73-18-3 to 73-18-24 NMSA 1978], inclusive, of this act shall apply only to conservancy districts heretofore or hereafter organized or existing under the Conservancy Act and which heretofore or hereafter shall have entered into a contract with the United […]
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act [73-18-1 to 73-18-24 NMSA 1978] are hereby repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal any provision of the Conservancy Act, except as the provisions thereof, in their application to a contracting district, may conflict with the provisions hereof. History: […]
This act [73-18-1 to 73-18-24 NMSA 1978] may be cited as “The Conservancy District-Reclamation Contract Act”. History: Laws 1939, ch. 148, § 25; 1941 Comp., § 77-3124; 1953 Comp., § 75-32-24.
Sections 73-18-25 through 73-18-43 NMSA 1978 apply to conservancy districts organized under the laws of New Mexico having a contract with the United States under the reclamation laws of the United States, as provided under Chapter 73, Article 18 NMSA 1978, and having an area of land of all classes within the exterior boundaries of […]
In all counties in this state in which there exists a conservancy district within the classification as provided in Section 73-18-25 NMSA 1978, or a major portion by area of such a conservancy district, the board of county commissioners of the county shall, on the first Monday in August 1955, by resolution to be made […]
The board of directors of the conservancy district shall meet at the office of the conservancy district at 10:00 a.m. on the second Tuesday of August 1955 and shall call an election in the election precincts outside the municipality to be held on the second Tuesday in October 1955. The election shall be called by […]
