New Mexico § 67-8-17 - Relocation of utility facilities authorized
Full text of New Mexico New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 67-8-17 — Relocation of utility facilities authorized, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 67-8-17. Relocation of utility facilities authorized
A. The commission may, after notice and hearing, by order provide for the relocation
of utility facilities within a public highway (including, if required, the entire
removal therefrom of certain facilities except as necessary to serve abutting premises
or as necessary to cross the highway) and may require any utility to make or suffer
any such specified relocation, upon a finding that the action provided for is necessitated
by highway improvement determined upon by the commission as a matter of policy relating
to the design, construction, location and maintenance of public highways; and the
commission shall direct and control the reasonable manner and time of effecting any
such relocation so as to promote the public interest in the highway improvement without
undue cost or risk and without impairment of utility service, whether the commission
undertakes the relocation on behalf of the state or requires the utility to perform
such relocation. If undertaken by the commission, it may contract such relocation work. B. The obligation of the utility shall be to make or suffer relocation as so required
by the commission, and to do so cooperatively and in the reasonable manner and time
as may be prescribed by the commission, and to advance and pay all costs incurred
in effecting relocation which the state is not authorized to pay hereunder or otherwise
by law. It shall not be grounds for delay in relocation that a dispute exists over the cost
of relocation or the method of paying or sharing same. C. The commission is authorized to enter into an agreement with a utility with respect
to any relocation, the time and manner of its accomplishment and the payment and sharing
of the cost incurred in effecting relocation, all upon such reasonable terms and conditions
as the commission shall approve as necessary or appropriate in the interest of a public
highway program in this state; and in such event no notice, hearing or other proceedings
under this act shall be required.
Source: official New Mexico text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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