2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 2 - Ditches or Acequias
Section 73-2-35 - [Obligation to work continues until completion.]
Every person or persons, being tillers of irrigated lands, who shall have commenced the work on any public acequia in common labor, are and shall be obligated to continue on that work until the completion of the clearing of said acequia.
History: Laws 1860-1861, p. 66, § 1; C.L. 1865, ch. 1, § 27; C.L. 1884, § 43; C.L. 1897, § 40; Code 1915, § 5763; C.S. 1929, § 151-433; 1941 Comp., § 77-1431; 1953 Comp., § 75-14-32.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Extent of duty. — It is the duty of owners of land affected by water through a community ditch to labor on the ditch in the maintenance and repair thereof in proportion to the land affected by it. State ex rel. Black v. Aztec Ditch Co., 1919-NMSC-057, 25 N.M. 590, 185 P. 549.
