2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 72 - Water Law
Section 17 Las Cruces Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control
Section 72-17-20 Implementing powers.
72-17-20. Implementing powers.
The board may:
A. acquire, improve, equip, maintain and operate any project or facility for the control of flood and storm waters of the authority and the flood and storm waters of streams which have their sources outside of the authority but which streams and the flood waters thereof flow into the authority;
B. protect from such floods or storm waters the watercourses, watersheds, public highways, life and property in the authority;
C. exercise the right of eminent domain, either within or without the authority, in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public use.
History: 1953 Comp., 75-38-20, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 156, 20.
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