2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 49 - Land Grants
Article 7 - Manzano Grant
Section 49-7-2 - Management of grant; commissioners; election; qualifications.]
For the purpose of managing the said grant there shall be elected five members as commissioners of said grant, who shall be legal voters according to the qualifications provided for voters in the general elections in the state of New Mexico, and furthermore they shall be residents of, and interested in said grant, and that they shall not have committed any offense against the laws of the state of New Mexico: which commissioners shall be voted for by the persons who shall have the same qualifications which such commissioners shall have as herein provided; which election for said commissioners shall be held within said grant at the place designated and under the rules established by the acting commissioners, on the first Tuesday of September, A.D. 1907, and every two years thereafter.
History: Laws 1907, ch. 39, § 2; Code 1915, § 857; C.S. 1929, § 29-702; 1941 Comp., § 9-702; 1953 Comp., § 8-7-2.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Local option election could not be held within two months preceding election of land grant commissioners authorized by this section. 1915-16 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 15-1520.
