Section 73-8-57 – [Demurrers and answers to petition for validation of board proceedings.]
Any person interested in the drainage district or in the issue or deposit of such bonds, or in such other proceedings as may be in issue as herein provided, may demur to or answer the petition. The provisions of Chapter LXXXVIII of the New Mexico Statutes Annotated, Codification of 1915, respecting demurrer or answer to […]
Section 73-8-58 – [Consideration and judgment on petition to validate board proceedings.]
Upon the hearing of such special proceedings the court shall find and determine whether the notice of the filing of the petition has been duly given and published as required by this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978], and shall have power and jurisdiction to examine into and determine the legality and validity of, and […]
Section 73-8-59 – [“District” defined.]
The word “district” as used in this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] shall be held to mean and include only the lands described in the official order establishing any drainage district, and the official plat thereof of record in the office of the county clerk as by this act hereinbefore provided and such other […]
Section 73-8-60 – [Construction.]
Nothing in this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] shall be construed as affecting or interfering with the general right of appeal and the rules of practice and procedure relative thereto under existing laws, except as herein specifically limited; and nothing herein contained shall be construed to amend, expressly or by any implication, existing district […]
Section 73-8-47 – [Publication of notice of hearing on exclusion of land; contents; expenses.]
Upon the filing of such petition the secretary of the district shall cause notice of such filing to be published in the manner by this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] prescribed for the publication of notices. The notices shall set forth the filing of the petition, the names of the petitioner, or petitioners, a […]
Section 73-8-48 – [Hearing on petition for exclusion of land.]
At the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times to which hearing upon such petition may be adjourned, the board of directors shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto which are presented in writing, showing cause as aforesaid why the prayer of the petition should not […]
Section 73-8-49 – [Order for denial or approval of exclusion of land.]
If the board of directors shall deem it not to be for the best interests of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, shall be excluded from the district, it shall order that the said petition be denied; but if such board shall deem it to be for the […]
Section 73-8-50 – [Filing order of exclusion and new plat; effect.]
Upon the allowance of such petition a certified copy of the order of the board of directors authorizing such change, and a plat of such district showing such change, certified by the president and the secretary of the district, shall be filed for record in the office of the county clerk of each county in […]
Section 73-8-51 – [Revising election divisions and precincts after exclusion of land.]
At least thirty days before the next general election of any such district the board of directors thereof may make an order dividing said district into divisions as nearly equal in size as practicable, in number as in this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] hereinbefore specified, and numbered consecutively; one director shall be elected […]
Section 73-8-52 – [Dissolution of district; petition; election; restrictions.]
When a majority of the resident freeholders owning one-third in area of the lands, or evidence of title to lands so owned within the limits of any such drainage district, shall petition the board of directors to call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said district a proposition […]