New Mexico § 73-1-3 - Petition; signers; contents of petition
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§ 73-1-3. Petition; signers; contents of petition
In order to establish an artesian conservancy district under this act, a petition
shall be filed in the district court of the county wherein the greater portion of
the lands to be embraced in the district are situated, the same to be signed by the
owners of more than one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of the real property in such proposed district, in either acreage or value as shown
by the last preceding assessment roll in the county, or counties, wherein such district
is proposed to be created. Such petition may be signed by any person, firm, association, corporation or the
officers duly authorized of any town, village, city or municipality owning lands within
the proposed district. Any city interested in some degree in the improvements or purposes for which a
district is to be formed, may, upon proper action of its governing body alone, file
the petition required by this section; provided, the population and businesses conducted
in such city own at least one-third ( 1 / 3 ) of the lands within said district in either acreage or value as shown by the last
preceding assessment roll of the county, or counties, wherein such district is proposed
to be created. The petition shall set forth: A. the proposed name of the district; B. a statement of the purpose, or purposes, for which the district is to be formed,
and showing wherein the property within the proposed district will be benefited by
the accomplishment of some one or more of the purposes enumerated, and giving a general
description of the property to be included in the proposed district. Such description need not be given by metes and bounds, or by legal subdivisions,
but it shall be sufficient if it enable a property owner to ascertain whether his
property is within the territory proposed to be organized as a district, and it need
not be necessary that all the property embraced within the district be contiguous; C. said petition shall pray for the organization of the district by the name proposed.
Source: official New Mexico text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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