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2017 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 5 - Water Users' Associations
Section 73-5-1 - Water users associations; how organized.
Universal Citation: NM Stat § 73-5-1 (2017)
73-5-1. [Water users associations; how organized.]
Whenever the owners of lands, reservoirs or irrigation ditches in any county or adjoining counties in this state may desire to enter into mutual undertaking to construct, maintain and operate storage reservoirs, diversion dams, irrigating ditches, canals or other irrigation works, or to combine their several irrigating ditches, canals or other works into one or more irrigation systems, or to improve, enlarge or add to the same, for their mutual advantage, they may organize a water users' association under the provisions of this chapter [this article].
History: Laws 1909, ch. 76, 1; Code 1915, 5645; C.S. 1929, 150-101; 1941 Comp., 77-1601; 1953 Comp., 75-17-1.
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