2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 18 - Conservancy Districts; Reclamation Contracts
Section 73-18-28 - Director-at-large and municipal director; qualified elector list. (Effective July 1, 2022.)

A. The director to represent the municipality and the director-at-large for the period from October 1955 to October 1957 shall be selected at the September 1955 meeting by the board of directors of the conservancy district as it exists prior to the election. The members shall be elected from the membership of the previously existing board if there are qualified members of the board willing to serve for the additional two years. If there are no members of the existing board willing to serve for the additional period of two years or if there is only one, the existing board may select one or both of the directors from qualified electors of the district for the position or positions.

B. In the election to be held in October 1957, a director to represent the municipal voting precinct shall be elected from the qualified electors of the municipality, and a director-at-large shall be elected from the qualified electors of the district.

C. Every resident, otherwise qualified, owning real estate of any character within the district shall have one vote for director-at-large. Each elector resident of the municipal voting precinct shall have one vote for municipal director. The right of a voter to vote for municipal director shall not be affected by the elector voting in any other election precinct in which the elector may own class "A" land.

D. The conservancy district shall compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the appropriate county clerk no later than one hundred eighty days before an election, and update the list every thirty days until ninety days before the election, which list the county clerk shall use for that election.

History: 1953 Comp., § 75-32-28, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 281, § 4; 2018, ch. 79, § 154.

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, required that the conservancy district compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the county clerk for use in conservancy district elections; in the section heading, added "qualified elector list"; added subsection designations "A." through "C."; and added Subsection D.