2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 72 - Water Law
Section 5 Appropriation and Use of Surface Water
Section 72-5-38 State water rights for highway purposes and airports; nonforfeiture for failure to use.
72-5-38. [State water rights for highway purposes and airports; nonforfeiture for failure to use.]
Neither the state nor any agency, department, bureau or commission thereof holding any water rights to be used for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair of public roads, streets, highways and airports, whether surface, subsurface, artesian or underground and whatever the manner of acquisition, shall lose or forfeit such water right for failure to beneficially use all or any part of such water right.
History: 1953 Comp., 75-5-36, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 191, 5.
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