New Mexico § 73-2-41 - Indians; rights and duties
Full text of New Mexico New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 73-2-41 — Indians; rights and duties, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 73-2-41. Indians; rights and duties
The different Indians residing within the state shall be subject to render the same
services as non-Indians in working the acequias, within the limits of their respective
reservations in which they may have a common interest with the non-Indians who live
outside their respective reservations, and they shall enjoy at the same time the same
benefit and rights of commercial traffic; provided that the Indians shall have no
right to participate in the nominations and election of acequia mayordomos or superintendents
or acequia or water commissioners in any ditch, whether within or without their reservations,
except in acequias constructed entirely by themselves, unless they have paid their
proportionate share of the whole cost of the construction of such acequia and unless
the lands sought to be voted by the Indians have been duly returned for taxation in
accordance with law and state and county taxes paid thereon. In all cases in which non-Indians living outside the reservation have acquired water
rights by purchase of land from the Indians, the distribution of the water between
the Indians and the non-Indians shall be agreed upon, based upon the customs heretofore
practiced and recognized between the Indians and the non-Indians, by and between the
governor of the Indian community or pueblo and the commissioners of such acequias
in which the non-Indians may have acquired any such rights and, the governors of such
Indians and the acequia commissioners shall also regulate the amount and manner of
work to be done by the Indians and non-Indians in all such acequias in which all have
water rights in accordance with such customs.
Source: official New Mexico text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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