2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 8 - Drainage Districts Within Federal Reclamation Projects
Section 73-8-39 - [Requiring payment of pro rata share of prior costs.]
The board of directors may require as a condition precedent to the granting of the petition that the petitioners shall severally pay to the district such respective sums, as nearly as the same can be estimated by the board, as the petitioner or petitioners, or his or their grantor or grantors, would have been required to pay to such district as assessment for the payment of his or their pro rata of all bonds and the interest thereon which prior thereto may have been issued by said district, or his or their pro rata share of the cost of construction under any contract between the district and the United States, accompanying which bonds of the district have not been deposited with the United States, as in this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] provided, had such lands been included in such district at the time the same was originally formed, or when such bonds were so issued or when such contract with the United States was made.
History: Laws 1917, ch. 22, § 39; C.S. 1929, § 40-239; 1941 Comp., § 77-2039; 1953 Comp., § 75-21-39.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler's notes. — The words "this act" refers to Laws 1917, ch. 22, §§ 1 to 60, now compiled as 73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978.
