2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 18 - Conservancy Districts; Reclamation Contracts
Section 73-18-32 - Voting rights.

A. In district precinct elections, landowners owning one acre of irrigable land five months preceding the election shall be entitled to one vote for each acre of irrigable land or major fraction of an acre owned by the landowner up to one hundred sixty acres. Landowners owning less than one acre of irrigable land have no vote. A landowner may vote in all voting precincts in which the landowner has irrigable land, entitling the landowner to vote as provided in Sections 73-18-30 and 73-18-31 NMSA 1978.

B. For director-at-large, all persons who are over the age of eighteen and who have been the owners of real estate within the district for more than two months preceding the election shall be entitled to one vote.

C. All persons who are over the age of eighteen and who have been the owners of real estate within any municipality within the district for more than two months preceding the election shall be entitled to one vote for director representing the municipal election precinct.

D. To qualify voters to vote for directors-at-large and for director representing the municipal voting precinct, the ownership of real estate by the spouse shall be considered also ownership by the other spouse.

History: 1953 Comp., § 75-32-32, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 281, § 8; 1993, ch. 285, § 4; 2011, ch. 72, § 4.

The 2011 amendment, effective June 17, 2011, granted landowners who have owned one acre of irrigable land for five months preceding the election one vote in district precinct elections for each acre or major fraction of an acre that they own; granted landowners who have owned land in the district for more than two months preceding the election one vote for director-at-large; and granted landowners in a municipality within the district who have owned land in the district for more than two months preceding the election one vote for the director representing the municipal election precinct.

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, rewrote this section, designating the formerly undesignated paragraphs as Subsections A through D.