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NM Stat § 73-12-37 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-37 - Board to transmit order and plat of new boundaries to county clerk.

Upon the allowance of such petition and in case no protest has been filed with the board within thirty days after the entry of said order as aforesaid, a certified copy of the order of the board of directors making such change, and a plat of such district showing such change, certified by the president and secretary, shall be filed for record in the office of the county clerk of each county in which are situate any of the lands of the district, and the district shall remain an irrigation district as fully to all intents and purposes as if the lands which are included in the district by the change aforesaid had been included therein at the organization of the district; and said district as so changed and all the lands therein shall be liable for all existing obligations and indebtedness of the organized district. Upon the filing of the order and the plat, as herein mentioned, copies thereof, certified by said county clerk, shall be admissible in evidence to prove the inclusion of said lands in said district. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 37; C.S. 1929, § 73-737; 1941 Comp., § 77-2437; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-37.
NM Stat § 73-12-38 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-38 - Authority to sign petition of protest.

A guardian, conservator or personal representative of an estate, who is appointed as such under the laws of this state, and who, as such guardian, conservator or personal representative is entitled to the possession of the lands belonging to the estate which he represents, may on behalf of his ward or the estate which he represents, upon being thereunto authorized by the proper court, sign any petition or protest in this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978] mentioned, and may show cause, as in this act mentioned, why the boundaries of the district should not be changed or additional lands included therein. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 38; C.S. 1929, § 73-738; 1941 Comp., § 77-2438; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-38; Laws 1975, ch. 257, § 8-131.
NM Stat § 73-12-39 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-39 - Board may redivide district for election purposes [after inclusion of land].

In case of the inclusion of any lands within any district by proceedings under this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978] the board of directors, shall, if they deem necessary, at least thirty days prior to the next succeeding regular election, make an order redividing such district into three divisions, as nearly equal in size as may be practicable, and one director shall thereafter be elected for each division as hereinbefore provided. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 39; C.S. 1929, § 73-739; 1941 Comp., § 77-2439; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-39.
NM Stat § 73-12-40 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-40 - Land may be excluded from district.

Any tract of land included within the boundaries of any such district, at or after its organization under the provisions of this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978], may be excluded therefrom, in the manner herein prescribed, but such exclusion of land from the district shall not impair or affect its organization, or its rights in or to property or any of its rights or privileges of whatever kind or nature; nor shall such exclusion affect, impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which the district or the land so excluded is liable or chargeable, at the time such land is excluded from the district. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 40; C.S. 1929, § 73-740; 1941 Comp., § 77-2440; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-40.
NM Stat § 73-12-41 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-41 - Owner shall file petition for exclusion.

The owner or owners in fee of any lands constituting a portion of any irrigation district may file with the board of directors of the district, a petition praying that such lands may be excluded and taken from said district. The petition shall describe the lands which the petitioners desire to have excluded, but the description of such lands need not be more particular than required when lands are entered in the assessment book by the county assessor. Such petition must be acknowledged in the same manner and form as is required in case of a conveyance of land. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 41; C.S. 1929, § 73-741; 1941 Comp., § 77-2441; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-41. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For acknowledgements, see 14-14-1 to 14-14-11 NMSA 1978.
NM Stat § 73-12-42 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-42 - Publish notice of petition for exclusion.

The secretary of the board of directors shall cause a notice of the filing of such petition to be published for at least three weeks in some newspaper published in the county where the office of the board of directors is situated, and if any portion of said district lie within another county or counties, then said notice shall be so published in a newspaper published within each of said counties. The notice shall state the filing of such petition, the names of the petitioners, description of the lands mentioned in said petition and the prayer of said petitioners; and it shall notify all persons interested to appear at the office of said board at a time named in said notice, and show cause in writing, if any they have, why said petition should not be granted. The time to be specified in the notice at which they shall be required to show cause shall be the regular meeting of the board next after the expiration of the time for the publication of the notice. The petitioner or petitioners shall advance to the secretary sufficient money to pay the estimated cost of all proceedings under such petition before the secretary shall give such notice. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 42; C.S. 1929, § 73-742; 1941 Comp., § 77-2442; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-42. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For notice by publication, see 14-11-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
NM Stat § 73-12-43 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-43 - Board shall consider petition for exclusion.

The board of directors at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times to which the hearing of said petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto presented in writing by any person showing cause as aforesaid why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. The filing of such petition with such board, as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all of such petitioners, to the exclusion from such district of the lands mentioned in the petition, or any part thereof. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 43; C.S. 1929, § 73-743; 1941 Comp., § 77-2443; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-43.
NM Stat § 73-12-44 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-44 - Board shall act on petition for exclusion.

The board of directors, if they deem it not for the best interest of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition or any portion thereof should be excluded from said district shall order that said petition be denied; but if they deem it for the best interest of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, be excluded from the district, and if there are no outstanding bonds of the district, then the board may order the lands mentioned in the petition, or some defined portion thereof, to be excluded from the district; provided, if within thirty days from the making of such order a majority of the qualified electors of the district protest in writing to said board against the exclusion of such lands from said district, said order shall be held for naught and such lands shall not be excluded therefrom. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 44; C.S. 1929, § 73-744; 1941 Comp., § 77-2444; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-44.
NM Stat § 73-12-45 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-45 - Order making change and plat to be transmitted to county clerk.

Upon the allowance of such petition and in case no protest has been filed with the board within thirty days after the entry of said order as aforesaid, a certified copy of the order of the board of directors making such change and a plat of such district showing such change, certified by the president and secretary, shall be filed for record in the office of the county clerk, of each county in which are situate any of the lands of the district, and the district shall remain an irrigation district as fully to all intents and purposes as if the lands which are excluded by the change aforesaid, had not been excluded therefrom. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 45; C.S. 1929, § 73-745; 1941 Comp., § 77-2445; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-45.
NM Stat § 73-12-46 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-46 - Board may redivide district for election purposes [after exclusion of land].

At least thirty days before the next regular election of such district the board of directors thereof may, if they deem it necessary, make an order redividing said district into three divisions, as nearly equal in size as practicable, and one director shall be elected for each division as hereinbefore provided. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 46; C.S. 1929, § 73-746; 1941 Comp., § 77-2446; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-46.
NM Stat § 73-12-47 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-47 - Supervision of electrical and mechanical appliances; schedules for use of power; regulations of quantity of water to be pumped.

The board may employ a competent engineer or mechanic whose duty it shall be to supervise the operation and maintenance of all power plants, transmission lines, motors, engines, pumps and all electrical and mechanical appliances installed by the district and may, through such engineer or otherwise, provide engineering, electrical, mechanical, irrigation and agricultural assistance and instruction to owners of lands within the district. The board shall in its printed rules relating to the service provide schedules for irrigation by the several owners of land so as to evenly and equitably distribute the power-load and may establish rules as to the amount of water to be pumped from each of such wells in conjunction with any state authority that may now or later be vested with jurisdiction of the appropriation of water from subsurface streams or reservoirs, in order to control, as far as practicable, the water level of such subsurface streams or reservoirs, and to avoid excessive pumping which might increase the pumping cost beyond the point of efficiency. Said board shall also have the jurisdiction and authority to stop the waste of water in such district. The board may refuse service to owners of land unless and until such owners conform to such rules so established by the board in their use of such power and water. All such rules must be reasonable and are subject to correction by action of any person affected thereby in the district court. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 47; C.S. 1929, § 73-747; 1941 Comp., § 77-2447; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-47. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1929, ch. 76, contained no effective date provision, but was enacted at a session which adjourned on March 9, 1929. See N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Irrigation §§ 52, 53. 94 C.J.S. Waters § 321.
NM Stat § 73-12-48 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-48 - District shall pay tax on gross revenue derived from sales of surplus power.

Any district organized under the provisions of this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978] shall be taxed in the sum of four percent (4%) of the gross revenue derived from the sale of surplus power, which amount shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which such district is organized to the credit of the county road fund. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 48; C.S. 1929, § 73-748; 1941 Comp., § 77-2448; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-48.
NM Stat § 73-12-49 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-49 - Petition for dissolution of district; election thereon.

Whenever a majority of the resident freeholders, representing a majority of the number of acres of the land included in any irrigation district organized or hereafter to be organized under this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978], shall petition the board of directors to call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said irrigation district a proposition to vote on the question of dissolution of said irrigation district, setting forth in said petition that all obligations, bills and claims of every nature whatsoever have been fully satisfied and paid, it shall be the duty of said directors, if they shall be satisfied that all obligations, claims and bills have been fully satisfied, to call an election, setting forth the object of the said election, and to cause notice of said election to be published in some newspaper in each of the counties in which any part of said district is located, for a period of thirty (30) days next prior to said election, setting forth the time and place for holding said election in each of the voting precincts in said district. It shall also be the duty of the directors to prepare ballots to be used at said election on which shall be written or printed words: "For Dissolution - Yes," and "For Dissolution - No." History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 49; C.S. 1929, § 73-749; 1941 Comp., § 77-2449; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-49. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1929, ch. 76, contained no effective date provision, but was enacted at a session which adjourned on March 9, 1929. See N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Irrigation § 58. 94 C.J.S. Waters § 338.
NM Stat § 73-12-50 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-50 - Vote on dissolution to be canvassed.

The board of directors shall name a day for canvassing the vote, and if it shall appear that a majority of said ballots contain the words, "For Dissolution - Yes," then it shall be the duty of said board of directors to make and cause to be entered upon their records an order declaring said district to be dissolved and to certify a copy of said order to the county clerk of each county wherein any part of said district is situated. And clerks shall record all such certificates in the records of the respective counties. Should it appear that a majority of the votes cast at said election were "For Dissolution - No," then the board of directors shall declare the proposition lost and shall cause the result to be made a part of the records of said irrigation district. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 50; C.S. 1929, § 73-750; 1941 Comp., § 77-2450; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-50.
NM Stat § 73-12-51 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-51 - Confirmation proceedings may be brought.

The board of directors of any irrigation district purporting to be organized under this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978], may commence special proceeding [proceedings] in and by which the proceedings of said board and of the county commissioners for the organization of said district and for the authorizing of the issuance and sale of the bonds of said district, whether said bonds or any of them have or have not been sold or disposed of, may be judicially examined, determined, approved and confirmed, and the validity of said bonds determined, and in which proceedings there shall likewise be determined the question of benefits received by the land of any landowner owning land within said district, and as to whether or not such land of any such landowner will receive benefits equivalent to the taxes which may be necessary to be levied against his lands in order to provide funds for the payment of the bonds of district, including the amounts to be levied thereon for the purpose of paying delinquencies, as provided in Section 20 of Chapter 41, Laws of 1919 [73-9-26 NMSA 1978], as amended by Section 3 of this act. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 51; C.S. 1929, § 73-751; 1941 Comp., § 77-2451; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-51. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Compiler's notes. — "Section 3 of this act" refers to Laws 1927, ch. 148, § 3, which amended Laws 1919, ch. 41, § 20, now compiled as 73-9-26 NMSA 1978. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 319.
NM Stat § 73-12-52 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-52 - Petition to be filed in district court.

The board of directors of the irrigation district shall file in the district court of the county in which the lands of the district, or some portion thereof, are situated, a petition stating briefly the facts concerning the organization of the district, a description of the boundaries of the district, the amount of the bond issue, the rate of interest, the series in which the bonds mature, the amount of the taxes necessary to be levied upon each acre of land in the district and the amount which may be levied to cover delinquencies, and praying that the proceedings, including the question of benefits, may be examined, determined, approved and confirmed by the court. The petition shall state the facts showing the proceedings leading up to the issue of said bonds, but the petition need not state in detail the facts showing such organization or the election of said board of directors. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 52; C.S. 1929, § 73-752; 1941 Comp., § 77-2452; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-52. ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 319.
NM Stat § 73-12-53 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-53 - Court to fix time for hearing and publish notice thereof.

The court shall fix the time for the hearing of said petition and shall order the clerk of the court to give and publish a notice of the filing of such petition. The notice shall be published for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county where the office of the district is situated. The notice shall state the time and place fixed for the hearing of the petition and the prayer of the petitioners, and that any person interested in the organization of said district or in the proceedings for the issue or sale of said bonds, or the benefits received or the tax necessary to be levied, may on or before the day fixed for the hearing of said petition, demur to or answer said petition. The petition may be referred to and described in said notice as the petition of the board of directors of . . . . . . . . (giving its name), praying that the proceedings for the issue and sale of said bonds of said district and benefits received may be examined, determined, approved and confirmed by the court. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 53; C.S. 1929, § 73-753; 1941 Comp., § 77-2453; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-53. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For notice by publication, see 14-11-1 NMSA 1978 et seq. For the abolition of demurrers, see Rule 1-007 C NMRA. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 319.
NM Stat § 73-12-54 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-54 - Provisions of Civil Code shall apply; effect of findings of court.

The provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure respecting the demurrer and answer to a verified complaint shall be applicable to a demurrer and answer to said petition. The person so demurring and answering said petition shall be the defendant to the special proceedings, and the board of directors shall be the plaintiff. Every material statement of the petition not specifically controverted by the answer shall, for the purpose of said special proceedings, be taken as true, and every person failing to answer the petition shall, in case said bonds are declared by the court to be valid and the benefits received equal to the taxes necessary to be levied, be estopped from thereafter questioning the legality of the organization of the district, that the benefits received equal the taxes necessary to be levied, or the validity of said bonds in any proceeding. The rules of pleading and practice relating to appeals and writs of error provided by the Code of Civil Procedure which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978] are applicable to the special proceedings herein provided for. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 54; C.S. 1929, § 73-754; 1941 Comp., § 77-2454; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-54. ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — The pleading and practices procedures referred to in this section have been superseded by the Rules of Civil Procedure for District Courts. See Rule 1-001 NMRA and 38-1-1 and 38-1-2 NMSA 1978. For appeals in special statutory proceedings, see Rule 12-601 NMRA. Cross references. — For abolition of demurrer, see Rule 1-007 NMRA.
NM Stat § 73-12-56 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-56 - ["Electrical district" defined.]

Whenever the words ". . . . . . . . Electrical District" are used in this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978] it shall be held to mean and include only the lands described in the official order establishing said district and the official order including additional lands therein, if any, on record in the office of the county clerk and property and rights acquired by the district. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 56; C.S. 1929, § 73-756; 1941 Comp., § 77-2456; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-56. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
NM Stat § 73-12-57 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 73 - Special Districts|Article 12 - Electrical Irrigation Districts|Section 73-12-57 - Provisions of Chapter 20, Acts of 1925, relating to certification board, shall apply to this act.

The provisions of Chapter 20, of the Sessions Acts of 1925, being an act "relating to bonds of irrigation and conservancy districts, providing under what circumstances such bonds shall be legal investments for funds of banks in which companies and trust companies, trust funds and permanent funds derived from the sale of lands that may have been or may hereafter be granted to the state or any money or fund which may now or hereafter be invested in bonds, of cities, counties, school districts or municipalities and providing under what circumstances the use of irrigation and conservancy districts as security for the performance of any act may be authorized and provided that such bonds may be deposited to secure public money deposited in banks in the state of New Mexico," is hereby extended and made to apply also to electrical irrigation districts organized under this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978]. History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 57; C.S. 1929, § 73-757; 1941 Comp., § 77-2457; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-57. ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — Laws 1976, ch. 33, § 1 repealed the compiled sections of Laws 1925, ch. 20, which had dealt with certification of bonds.