2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 72: Water Law
Article 20: Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act, 72-20-1 through 72-20-103
Section 72-20-2: Legislative declaration.

72-20-2. Legislative declaration.

It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that:

A. the organization of the authority hereby created having the purposes, powers, duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities and disabilities provided in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act will serve a public use and will promote the health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants thereof and of the state;

B. the acquisition, improvement, maintenance and operation of any project authorized in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act is in the public interest and constitutes a part of the established and permanent policy of the state;

C. the authority hereby organized shall be a body corporate and politic, a quasi-municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the state;

D. the flood control system hereby authorized and directed to be acquired will be of special benefit to the property within the boundaries of the authority organized and created in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act;

E. the notice provided for in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act for each hearing and action to be taken is reasonably calculated to inform any person of interest in any proceedings under that act that may directly and adversely affect that person's legally protected interests;

F. a general law cannot be made applicable to the designated flood control system and the provisions appertaining thereto in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act because of a number of atypical and special conditions concerning them; and

G. for the accomplishment of these purposes, the provisions of the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act shall be broadly construed.