2016 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 2 - Ditches or Acequias
Section 73-2-47 - Several ditches from one stream; joint meeting of commissioners.
73-2-47. [Several ditches from one stream; joint meeting of commissioners.]
It shall be the duty of all the ditch commissioners of the state of New Mexico, where two or more ditches are constructed from and supply waters from the same source or river and within the limits of a precinct, to have a meeting on the first Monday of April of each year for the purpose of making a true, just and equitable apportionment and distribution of the water for their respective ditches, and it shall be the duty of the superintendents of said ditches respectively to apportion and distribute the water in said ditches among the persons entitled thereto to the use of the same, in accordance with the orders of said ditch commissioners and not otherwise.
History: Laws 1903, ch. 15, 1; Code 1915, 5776; C.S. 1929, 151-446; 1941 Comp., 77-1443; 1953 Comp., 75-14-44.
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