2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 18 - Conservancy Districts; Reclamation Contracts
Section 73-18-27 - Calling of first election.

The board of directors of the conservancy district shall meet at the office of the conservancy district at 10:00 a.m. on the second Tuesday of August 1955 and shall call an election in the election precincts outside the municipality to be held on the second Tuesday in October 1955. The election shall be called by the board of directors by resolution that shall fix a voting place for each election precinct within the district outside the municipality and designate the necessary qualified electors of each election precinct to act as judges of the election in each precinct. In the discretion of the board of directors of the conservancy district, the election may be held at any place within the district. Judges of the elections shall be paid an amount to be determined by the board of directors for service. Expenses of the elections shall be paid by the district. In each odd-numbered year after 1955, elections shall be called in the same manner and at the same times as provided in Sections 73-18-25 through 73-18-43 NMSA 1978 for the election of directors to succeed any directors whose terms expire in that year.

History: 1953 Comp., § 75-32-27, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 281, § 3; 2011, ch. 72, § 2.

The 2011 amendment, effective June 17, 2011, eliminated the provision that permitted wives of electors to act as judges; authorized the board of directors to determine the compensation of judges; and required that elections in odd-numbered years be called as provided in Sections 73-18-25 through 73-18-43 NMSA 1978.