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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 75 - Miscellaneous Natural Resource Matters
Section 5 Natural Lands Protection
Section 75-5-3 Definitions.
NM Stat § 75-5-3 (2014) What's This?
75-5-3. Definitions.
As used in the Natural Lands Protection Act [75-5-1 NMSA 1978]:
A. "committee" means the natural lands protection committee;
B. "unique and ecologically significant lands" are lands which:
(1) afford habitat for species listed as rare, threatened or endangered by the state or federal government; and
(2) are identified by the natural resources department as constituting the best remaining examples of native ecological communities that are otherwise unprotected; and
C. "corporation" means a New Mexico not-for-profit corporation whose primary purpose is the preservation and conservation of lands.
History: Laws 1987, ch. 192, 3.
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