2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 71 - Energy and Minerals
Section 5 Geothermal Resources Conservation
Section 71-5-7 Power of commission and division to prevent waste and protect correlative rights.

NM Stat § 71-5-7 (2015) What's This?

71-5-7. Power of commission and division to prevent waste and protect correlative rights.

The commission and division are hereby empowered, and it is their duty, to prevent the waste prohibited by the Geothermal Resources Conservation Act [71-5-1 NMSA 1978] and to protect correlative rights, as in that act provided. To that end, the commission and division may make and enforce rules, regulations and orders relating to geothermal resources, and to do whatever may be reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of that act whether or not indicated or specified in any section thereof.

History: 1953 Comp., 65-11-7, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 272, 7; 1977, ch. 255, 76.

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