New Mexico Code — 19
Browse 298 sections in division 19 of the New Mexico code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 19-1-1. Creation of state land office; commissioner of public lands designated executive officer; powers
- § 19-1-1.1. State land trusts advisory board; members; appointment; terms
- § 19-1-1.2. State land trusts advisory board; removal of members; vacancies
- § 19-1-1.3. State land trusts advisory board; organization; meetings
- § 19-1-1.4. State land trusts advisory board; duties
- § 19-1-2. Duties of land commissioner
- § 19-1-2.1. Confidential information; penalty
- § 19-1-3. Delinquent payments; interest
- § 19-1-4. Oath and bond
- § 19-1-5. Land commission under Enabling Act; members; officers; locating agents
- § 19-1-6. Assistant commissioner; chief clerk; clerical force
- § 19-1-7. Appointment of employees as clerks to sign documents for commissioner; filing with the secretary of state
- § 19-1-8. Filing of official appointment; revocation; bond
- § 19-1-9. Additional assistance to defend contest suits
- § 19-1-10. Duties and bonds of subordinates; expenses payable from maintenance fund
- § 19-1-11. State lands maintenance fund; created; state lands income; disposition; state trust lands restoration and remediation fund created
- § 19-1-12. State land office; expenses; how paid
- § 19-1-13. Maintenance fund balance; apportionment
- § 19-1-14. Separate accounts; payment of deficiencies; exception
- § 19-1-16. Deposit of money derived from state lands
- § 19-1-17. Permanent, income and current funds; creating deposits
- § 19-1-18. Sources of special funds
- § 19-1-19. Public buildings at capital, permanent fund; investment
- § 19-1-20. Transfers and distributions of funds for schools and institutions
- § 19-1-21. Copies of records; fees; use as evidence
- § 19-1-22. Contracts for potash land; exploration
- § 19-1-23. Rules and regulations for land office; posting changes
- § 19-1-24. Publication of rules and regulations; distribution of copies
- § 19-1-25. Renewable energy office established
- § 19-2-1. Lands erroneously set apart to state; quitclaim to United States; selection of lands in lieu thereof
- § 19-2-2. Jurisdiction; transfer procedure
- § 19-2-3. Taxation; civil process; concurrent jurisdiction
- § 19-2-4. Application of act
- § 19-2-5. New Mexico taxes apply in federal areas
- § 19-2-6. Fort Bayard military reservation; jurisdiction ceded; limitation
- § 19-2-7. Santa Fe national cemetery; jurisdiction ceded; limitation
- § 19-2-8. Fort Wingate military reservation and Fort Bliss target range; jurisdiction ceded; limitation
- § 19-2-9. Veterans' administration facility at Fort Bayard; jurisdiction ceded; limitation
- § 19-2-10. Quarai and Abo state monuments; jurisdiction ceded; approval; limitations
- § 19-2-11. Holloman air force base; jurisdiction ceded; limitations
- § 19-2-12. Exchange of lands with United States
- § 19-3-1. Possessory rights of occupant; notice and record; abandonment
- § 19-3-2. Copy of record as evidence
- § 19-3-3. Transfer of rights; consent of wife; exemption from sale under execution
- § 19-3-4. Timber and articles reduced to possession; property right
- § 19-3-5. Common pastures
- § 19-3-6. Use of common pasturage
- § 19-3-7. Meadows in common pastures; enclosure for hay
- § 19-3-8. Exclusive occupation of meadow; penalty; civil damages
- § 19-3-9. Proceedings before magistrate
- § 19-3-10. Jurisdiction of magistrate and of district court
- § 19-3-11. Unlawful enclosure of public lands
- § 19-3-12. Occupying or denying others use of public land; penalty
- § 19-3-13. Right to appropriate and stock range on public domain; conditions
- § 19-3-14. Second or subsequent use of range; conditions
- § 19-3-15. Use of public land for range without owning water right; penalty
- § 19-3-16. Each day's violation a separate offense
- § 19-4-1. Patents of townsites to be recorded
- § 19-4-2. Failure to record townsite patent; penalty
- § 19-4-3. Prosecutions for failure to record; duty of district attorneys
- § 19-4-4. Title to townsite vested in probate judge in trust; suit to determine rights; execution of deeds
- § 19-4-5. Notice of suit; intervention
- § 19-4-6. Vacating all or part of townsite
- § 19-4-7. Disposal of lots after entry
- § 19-4-8. Conveyances to persons entitled to possession or occupancy
- § 19-4-9. Notice of entry; posting and publication
- § 19-4-10. Claim for lots; time limit; unclaimed lots revert to town
- § 19-4-11. Notice of meeting to elect trustees; qualifications; duties
- § 19-4-12. Term of office of trustees
- § 19-4-13. Board of appraisers; appointment; oath; refusal to act; new board
- § 19-4-14. Appraisement; contents; valuations
- § 19-4-15. Notice of sale; publication; contents
- § 19-4-16. Conduct of sales
- § 19-4-17. Conveyance of streets, parks and commons by probate judge
- § 19-4-18. Purchase at private sale by person in possession
- § 19-4-19. Reservation for park or public purpose
- § 19-4-20. Disposition of proceeds
- § 19-4-21. Adverse claims; litigation
- § 19-4-22. Paramount right to lands
- § 19-4-23. Notice to file suit; service; publication; relinquishment on failure to obey
- § 19-4-24. Service of process; publication
- § 19-4-25. Appeals
- § 19-4-26. Reports of expenses
- § 19-4-27. Conveyances; payment of costs
- § 19-4-28. Commissioner; appointment; qualifications; powers; office hours; bond
- § 19-4-29. Recording of order appointing commissioner
- § 19-4-30. Conveyance by probate judge; land for town benefit
- § 19-4-31. Conveyances; time for execution
- § 19-4-32. Probate judge; claim for lands in individual right
- § 19-4-33. Streets, alleys, parks and public grounds
- § 19-4-34. Claimant failing to pay costs and fees
- § 19-4-35. Trustees; organization; officers; quorum
- § 19-4-36. Probate judges declared county judges for purpose of trust
- § 19-4-37. Taxation of costs
- § 19-4-38. Unsold lots; petition; appraisers
- § 19-4-39. Appraisement; report; compensation
- § 19-4-40. Preference right of possessor to purchase
- § 19-4-41. Commissioner; sale; notice by publication; deeds; fees
- § 19-4-42. Disposition of proceeds
- § 19-5-1. Data on nature, character, quality and value of public lands; classification; duties of land commissioner
- § 19-5-2. Maps, plats and tract books for recording data
- § 19-5-3. Fire protection; expenses
- § 19-5-4. State engineer to investigate water supply
- § 19-5-5. Wells to be equity of state
- § 19-5-6. Purchaser of land to pay value of well
- § 19-5-7. Irrigation systems; contracts for construction
- § 19-5-8. Proposal to construct irrigation system
- § 19-5-9. Water developed by lessee; credit
- § 19-5-10. Water appropriation application
- § 19-6-1. Fires on state lands; lighting or leaving; penalty
- § 19-6-2. Duty to extinguish fires; penalty for failure
- § 19-6-3. Trespass or waste; penalty
- § 19-6-4. Depredations; penalty
- § 19-6-5. Lessee to protect land against waste or trespass
- § 19-6-6. Failure of lessee or purchaser to provide gates and runways at intersection of public highway; failure to close gate; penalty
- § 19-6-7. Destruction or damage to fence or gate on state lands; penalty
- § 19-6-8. Opening and failing to close gates on forest reserves and adjoining lands
- § 19-6-9. Liability for resultant damage or trespass
- § 19-6-10. Penalty for failing to close gates
- § 19-7-1. Application for lease or purchase; appraisement
- § 19-7-2. Formal requirements for applications; state officers and employees prohibited from acting as, or procuring, agents or attorneys
- § 19-7-3. Numbering and dating applications upon receipt
- § 19-7-4. Deposit of funds; rejection of application without deposit
- § 19-7-5. Simultaneous applications
- § 19-7-6. Offenses by officers or employees of land office; penalty
- § 19-7-7. False swearing in application or appraisement
- § 19-7-8. Cancellation of lease or contract obtained by fraud or mistake; notice to show cause; appeal
- § 19-7-9. Sale and lease of state lands; conveyance for term of years; terms and conditions
- § 19-7-9.1. State land office; public notice; public meetings
- § 19-7-10. Restrictions on deferred payments
- § 19-7-12. Outstanding contracts may be canceled and new contracts granted; conditions
- § 19-7-14. Owner of improvements compensated by purchaser or by subsequent lessee
- § 19-7-15. Definition of improvements
- § 19-7-16. Cost of appraisal
- § 19-7-17. Appeal
- § 19-7-18. Bond required
- § 19-7-19. Failure to comply with contract; forfeiture at option of commissioner
- § 19-7-20. Assignment of contracts not in default; certified copy to be filed with commissioner
- § 19-7-21. Townsite lands; subdivision
- § 19-7-22. Cemetery or school site lands; subdivision and sale
- § 19-7-23. School section used for cemeteries; not to be sold
- § 19-7-24. Management of cemeteries on school sections; sale of lots; cemetery association
- § 19-7-25. Reservation from sale of saline, mineral and oil and gas lands; leasing authorized
- § 19-7-26. State irrigable lands; sale; conveyance to United States
- § 19-7-27. Lands subject to lease
- § 19-7-28. Grazing and agricultural leases; reservation of mineral deposits, products and easements
- § 19-7-29. Grazing leases; rental rates; annual rental; appraisal of land
- § 19-7-30. Grazing or agricultural leases; maximum term; method of payment
- § 19-7-31. Power of commissioner to reject grazing lease application by a previous lessee when land is located within Taylor grazing allotment of another
- § 19-7-32. Open and unleased land within Taylor grazing allotment of another
- § 19-7-33. Right of relinquishment not restricted
- § 19-7-34. Rent lien; attachment; forfeiture
- § 19-7-35. Cancellation or forfeiture of agricultural or grazing leases restricted; sale of leased land
- § 19-7-36. Assignment or relinquishment of lease; consent of commissioner required
- § 19-7-37. Assignment of grazing or agricultural lease or purchase contract as collateral; approval of commissioner; effect
- § 19-7-38. Presenting assignment to commissioner; indexing; filing; public inspection
- § 19-7-39. Form of assignment; contents; acknowledgment; constructive notice; recording waived
- § 19-7-40. Assignments not filed and approved; effect
- § 19-7-41. Foreclosure of assignments; rights of purchaser
- § 19-7-42. Release of assignments; recording
- § 19-7-43. Conditions for approval; right of cancellation reserved; preference of state liens
- § 19-7-44. Rules and regulations; filing and recording fee
- § 19-7-45. Construction of act; prior assignments and mortgages
- § 19-7-46. Satisfaction of debt for which assignment of grazing or agricultural lease or purchase contracts given as security; filing of release
- § 19-7-47. Violation; penalty; civil liability
- § 19-7-48. Existing collateral assignments ratified; application of act thereto
- § 19-7-49. New grazing lease; time for filing application; prior lessee preferred
- § 19-7-50. Violation of lease or instrument covering state lands; notice; forfeiture for noncompliance with demand
- § 19-7-51. Improvement on grazing or agricultural lease; restrictions
- § 19-7-52. Excessive permanent improvements become part of realty
- § 19-7-53. Preferences in leasing; occupants of land acquired by state; persons or firms domiciled or paying taxes in state
- § 19-7-54. Municipalities leasing lands within five miles of limits; uses; term
- § 19-7-55. Counties and school districts leasing state lands; uses; term
- § 19-7-56. Preference right of municipality, county or school district; payment for prior improvements
- § 19-7-57. Commissioner; powers; easements; rights of way
- § 19-7-58. Rights-of-way; interference with roads or highways
- § 19-7-59. Repayment of money erroneously paid on lease or purchase contract after distribution
- § 19-7-60. Claim for refund; contents; time limit; notice of erroneous payment; limitation of action
- § 19-7-61. Endorsement of claims; filing in district court of Santa Fe county; notice to claimant; procedure; judgment; appeal; costs
- § 19-7-62. Annual appropriation for refunds; payment from state lands maintenance fund
- § 19-7-63. Erroneous distribution to permanent fund
- § 19-7-64. Contesting rights to state lands; rules and regulations
- § 19-7-65. Commissioner's power relative to oaths, witnesses and documents
- § 19-7-66. Perjury in contest proceedings; penalty
- § 19-7-67. Contest; commissioner; appeal to district court
- § 19-8-1. Concealment of returns; defrauding state of royalty; penalty
- § 19-8-2. Inspection of lessee's books by commissioner
- § 19-8-3. Lessee's preferential right to renew or purchase; notice to vacate when another purchases
- § 19-8-4. Leases for certain minerals; rentals; royalty
- § 19-8-5. Term of lease
- § 19-8-6. Salt lease statutes excepted
- § 19-8-7. Rules and regulations authorized
- § 19-8-8. Suspension of production; authorization by commissioner of public lands; causes; duration
- § 19-8-9. Suspension of production; authorization by commissioner of public lands; extension of primary term of lease; secondary term of lease not determined by
- § 19-8-10. Saline leases; royalties; record of sales; conditions
- § 19-8-11. Term of saline lease; extension
- § 19-8-12. Shale, clay, natural deposit or product lease; conditions; improvement mortgages void
- § 19-8-13. Mineral lands; development
- § 19-8-14. Issuance of mineral leases authorized; minerals not included
- § 19-8-15. Minerals, lessees, legal subdivision defined
- § 19-8-16. Validation of existing leases and permits; renewals of permits prohibited
- § 19-8-17. Relinquishment of permits for conversion
- § 19-8-18. Term of leases
- § 19-8-19. Terms of leases; stipulation of conditions under statute; filing and recording
- § 19-8-19.1. Suspension of lease requirement; authorization by commissioner; causes; duration
- § 19-8-20. Leases; stipulation; rental
- § 19-8-21. Rentals
- § 19-8-22. Royalty
- § 19-8-23. Covenants to market and develop
- § 19-8-24. Bonds
- § 19-8-25. Inspection of records; reports
- § 19-8-26. Relinquishment of leases
- § 19-8-27. Violation of lease; notice; forfeiture for noncompliance with demand
- § 19-8-28. Assignment of leases; form; approval; effect; lands in production
- § 19-8-29. Improvements removable upon termination of lease
- § 19-8-30. Area of lease
- § 19-8-31. Posting of open acreage; simultaneous applications
- § 19-8-32. Rules and regulations authorized
- § 19-8-33. Withholding of lands from lease authorized; lease by competitive bidding authorized
- § 19-9-9. Coal leases; authorization; competitive bids
- § 19-9-10. Coal leases; provisions
- § 19-9-11. Authority to enter; inspect books; prior lien
- § 19-9-12. Performance bond
- § 19-9-13. Forfeiture for noncompliance
- § 19-9-14. Relinquishment
- § 19-9-15. Rules and regulations authorized
- § 19-9-16. Existing lessees; right to a new lease
- § 19-10-1. Issuance of leases authorized; lands subject; carbon dioxide leases exempted
- § 19-10-2. Definitions
- § 19-10-3. Classification of state lands for oil and gas leasing
- § 19-10-4. Authorization to lease; lease provisions
- § 19-10-4.1. Exploratory form of lease; nonrestricted; regular restricted or premium restricted lands
- § 19-10-4.2. Discovery form of lease; regular restricted or premium restricted lands
- § 19-10-4.3. Development form of lease; premium restricted land
- § 19-10-5. Existing leases; stipulation
- § 19-10-5.1. Amendment of lease to lower royalty rate for oil wells under certain conditions
- § 19-10-6. Shut-in oil wells; conditions
- § 19-10-7. Exploratory form of lease; different term of years
- § 19-10-8. Extension of terms of leases
- § 19-10-9. Existing leases; stipulation to bring helium gas within terms
- § 19-10-11. Statement with royalty payment; inspection of books; state's lien for unpaid royalty; log; specimen of drill cuttings
- § 19-10-12. New lease or extension where no discovery made; preference right; conditions
- § 19-10-13. Assignment of leases; procedure; effect
- § 19-10-14. Application for lease; form; deposit; appraisement
- § 19-10-15. Rental; limits; first year; rental districts; alteration; maximum size of lease; rent where lease crosses district line
- § 19-10-16. Restricted districts; method of leasing; added area; notice; rental
- § 19-10-17. Public sale of restricted district leases; time; regulations; notice; minimum bonus; sealed bids or public auction authorized; site of sale; publication of notice; rejection of bids; completion of transaction
- § 19-10-18. No bids made; subsequent lease
- § 19-10-19. Withholding lands from lease authorized
- § 19-10-20. Cancellation of lease for nonpayment or nonperformance of requirements by lessee; notice
- § 19-10-21. Rules and regulations; amendment; rescission; effective date
- § 19-10-22. Validation of existing leases; contest of claims; relinquishment for conversion; terms of new lease; fees
- § 19-10-23. Appeal of commissioner's decision
- § 19-10-24. Contesting claims; jurisdiction of district court; appeal and error
- § 19-10-25. Proof of commissioner's records
- § 19-10-26. Lands sold with reservation of minerals; lease; bond to protect purchaser; waiver
- § 19-10-27. Lands sold on deferred payments with reservation of minerals or classified as mineral lands prior to full payment or issuance of patent; limited patent
- § 19-10-28. Lessee to purchase prior improvements on lands; proof of payment
- § 19-10-29. Removal of certain improvements on cancellation or forfeiture of lease
- § 19-10-30. Rules and regulations authorized
- § 19-10-31. Filing and recording of leases, other instruments and assignments with commissioner; constructive notice; recording in county waived
- § 19-10-32. Acknowledgments required; commissioner excepted
- § 19-10-33. Contracts relating to oil and gas rights; filing for record in land office
- § 19-10-34. System of records; indexing; public inspection
- § 19-10-35. Tract book system for oil and gas lands
- § 19-10-36. Rules and regulations; protection of instruments and records
- § 19-10-37. Filing and recording fees; disposition; expenses payable from maintenance fund
- § 19-10-38. Repeal and saving clause
- § 19-10-39. Litigation involving lessee's oil and gas rights on land sold with reservation of oil and gas; suspense account for royalty payments
- § 19-10-40. Litigants to show right to have royalties placed in suspense fund; determination of amount
- § 19-10-41. Remitting moneys for oil and gas royalty suspense fund; investment of fund; disposition of investment income
- § 19-10-42. Distribution of suspense funds after litigation is completed
- § 19-10-43. Suit by state to determine rights
- § 19-10-44. Intervention in pending litigation by attorney general
- § 19-10-45. Cooperative agreements for development or operation of oil and gas pools between lessees and others
- § 19-10-46. Cooperative agreements; requisites for approval
- § 19-10-47. Amendment of leases to conform with cooperative agreements
- § 19-10-48. Effect of provisions on powers of oil conservation commission and commissioner of public lands
- § 19-10-49. Validating act
- § 19-10-50. Oil, gas and mineral leases on state park lands
- § 19-10-51. Terms and conditions of leases on state park lands; disposition of rentals and royalties
- § 19-10-52. Drainage of state lands by oil or gas wells required to be offset; agreement to compensate state
- § 19-10-53. State participation in pooling and communitization agreements authorized
- § 19-10-54. Existing pooling and communitization agreements confirmed and validated; segregation of leases in accordance with prior agreement
- § 19-10-55. Validation of oil and gas leases
- § 19-10-56. Reports and remittance of state royalty; rules and regulations prescribed by commissioner
- § 19-10-57. Rules; regulations; notice; hearing
- § 19-10-58. Rules; regulations; record; filing with supreme court librarian
- § 19-10-59. Reporting and rendition forms to be adopted by rule or regulation
- § 19-10-61. Sale or exchange of royalty gas taken in kind
- § 19-10-63. Validation of oil and gas leases; 1967 act
- § 19-10-64. Royalties paid in oil; sale of; purpose of act
- § 19-10-65. Definitions
- § 19-10-66. Payment of royalties of the state in oil on demand
- § 19-10-67. Sale of state oil royalties; preference; authority of commissioner
- § 19-10-68. Application for preference in sale of royalty oil; requirements
- § 19-10-69. Grant of preference based upon application
- § 19-10-70. Advertising for bids; priority of bidders; award of oil