Section 3-53-3 - Irrigation; regulation of public acequias.

NM Stat § 3-53-3 (2019) (N/A)
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A municipality may regulate the flow and use of water in public acequias for irrigating purposes.

History: 1953 Comp., § 14-54-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.

Legislative intent. — The legislature did not intend, by implication, to empower cities to condemn, for street purposes, acequias used for irrigation purposes. Albuquerque v. Garcia, 1913-NMSC-006, 17 N.M. 445, 130 P. 118.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 315.