2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 20 - Soil and Water and Watershed Conservation Districts
Section 73-20-42 - Removal of supervisors.

A supervisor may be removed from office by the commission if it appears to the commission, after reasonable notice and impartial hearing, that the supervisor is guilty of misfeasance or malfeasance in office. The office of a supervisor who has missed three consecutive regular meetings of the supervisors may be declared vacant by majority vote of the remaining supervisors. The office of a supervisor who has missed four consecutive regular meetings of the supervisors shall be declared vacant and his successor shall be elected or appointed as in [the] case of any other vacancy.

History: 1953 Comp., § 45-5-57, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 137, § 16; 1977, ch. 254, § 71; 2003, ch. 88, § 15.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

The 2003 amendment, effective June 20, 2003, deleted "district" from the section heading; deleted "district" following "A" at the beginning of the section; substituted "The office of a supervisor who has missed three consecutive regular meetings of the supervisors may be declared vacant by majority vote of the remaining supervisors. The office of a supervisor who has missed four consecutive regular meetings of the supervisors shall be declared vacant" for "A district supervisor who fails to attend three consecutive meetings of district supervisors without reasonable or acceptable excuse shall be deemed to have resigned" following "malfeasance in office." near the end of the section.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 320.