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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 72 - Water Law
Section 13 Artesian Wells
Section 72-13-9 Conducting water so as to prevent waste.
NM Stat § 72-13-9 (2014) What's This?
72-13-9. Conducting water so as to prevent waste.
It is unlawful for any owner, person or corporation using the waters from any artesian well to conduct the same through any ditch, channel or conduit such that more than twenty percent of the waters are lost between the point of appropriation and the point of beneficial use.
History: Laws 1935, ch. 43, 9; 1941 Comp., 77-1209; 1953 Comp., 75-12-9; Laws 1971, ch. 47, 1.
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