2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Article 29 - Sanitary Projects
Section 3-29-2 - Definitions.

As used in the Sanitary Projects Act:

A. "community" means a rural unincorporated community and includes a combination of two or more rural unincorporated communities when they have been combined for the purposes set forth in the Sanitary Projects Act;

B. "association" includes an association or mutual domestic water consumers association organized under Laws 1947, Chapter 206, Laws 1949, Chapter 79 or Laws 1951, Chapter 52, as well as any association organized under the provisions of the Sanitary Projects Act;

C. "department" means the department of environment;

D. "member" or "membership" means a person who has paid the appropriate fees and has been issued a certificate as required by association bylaws;

E. "person" means a single residence or property owner, as determined by the rules adopted by the association's board of directors; and

F. "project" means a water supply or reuse, storm drainage or wastewater facility owned, constructed or operated by an association.

History: 1953 Comp., § 14-28-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1971, ch. 277, § 26; 1977, ch. 253, § 44; 2000, ch. 56, § 1; 2006, ch. 60, § 1.

Compiler's notes. — Laws 1947, ch. 206, referred to in Subsection B, was repealed by Laws 1949, ch. 79, § 19. Laws 1949, ch. 79, referred to in Subsection B, was repealed by Laws 1951, ch. 52, § 19. Laws 1951, ch. 52, referred to in Subsection B, was repealed by Laws 1957, ch. 122, § 22.

The 2006 amendment, effective March 6, 2006, added mutual domestic water consumers association as an "association" in Subsection B; deleted the definition of "fund" in former Subsection D; added a new Subsection D to define "member" and "membership"; added Subsection E to define "person"; and added Subsection F to define "project".

The 2000 amendment, effective March 6, 2000, substituted "the department of environment" for "the environmental improvement division of the health and environment" in Subsection C.