2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 2 - Ditches or Acequias
Section 73-2-23 - [Reimbursement of commissioner's expenses.]
The commissioner of each acequia shall be entitled to actual expenses incurred while in the performance of their [his] duties. Provided that the maximum rates which may be allowed for travel by privately owned conveyances shall be eight (8) cents per mile and provided further that if more than one commissioner shall travel in the same privately owned conveyances such mileage shall be charged but once.
History: 1941 Comp., § 77-1421a, enacted by Laws 1945, ch. 46, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 75-14-22.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Attorney fees. — Where defendants installed a new headgate on the association's acequia system without obtaining the approval of the association or the mayordomo; the mayordomo and a commissioner on behalf of the association obtained a temporary restraining order prohibiting defendants from continuing work on the ditch; and the district court awarded the association attorney fees, the award of attorney fees was not authorized by 73-2-23 or 73-2-64 NMSA 1978. Parkview Cmty. Ditch Ass'n v. Peper, 2014-NMCA-049.
