New Mexico § 71-9-3 - Definitions
Full text of New Mexico New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 71-9-3 — Definitions, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 71-9-3. Definitions
As used in the Geothermal Resources Development Act: A. “ correlative rights ” means the opportunity afforded, insofar as is practicable, to each owner or leaseholder
in a geothermal reservoir to produce the owner's or leaseholder's just and equitable
share of the geothermal resources within such reservoir, being an amount, so far as
can be practicably determined and so far as can be practicably obtained without waste,
substantially in the proportion that the recoverable geothermal resources of such
ownership or lease interest bear to the total recoverable geothermal resources in
the reservoir and, for such purpose, to use the owner's or leaseholder's just and
equitable share of the natural heat or energy in the reservoir; B. “ division ” means the energy conservation and management division of the energy, minerals and
natural resources department; C. “ geothermal reservoir ” means an underground reservoir containing geothermal resources, whether the fluids
in the reservoir are native to the reservoir or flow into or are injected into the
reservoir; D. “ geothermal resources ” means the natural heat of the earth in excess of two hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit,
or the energy, in whatever form, below the surface of the earth present in, resulting
from, created by or that may be extracted from this natural heat in excess of two
hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and all minerals in solution or other products obtained
from naturally heated fluids, brines, associated gases and steam, in whatever form,
found below the surface of the earth, but excluding oil, hydrocarbon gas and other
hydrocarbon substances and excluding the heating and cooling capacity of the earth
not resulting from the natural heat of the earth in excess of two hundred fifty degrees
Fahrenheit, as may be used for the heating and cooling of buildings through an on-site
geo-exchange heat pump or similar on-site system; and E. “ person ” means an individual or other legal entity, including federal, state or local governments
or their agents or instrumentalities.
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