The provisions of Sections 62-13-5 through 62-13-7 NMSA 1978 shall apply to mortgages, deeds of trust and other security instruments hereafter executed by, and to secure the payment of bonds, notes or other obligations of:

A. corporations engaged in this state in the generation, manufacture, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy and power to the public;

B. corporations engaged in this state in the transportation, distribution and sale through local distribution system or systems of natural gas to the public for domestic, commercial, industrial or any other use;

C. corporations owning or operating in this state any gas pipeline or lines for the transportation and sale of natural gas to other pipeline companies or to local distributing systems, or to municipalities, or to industrial consumers for their own use; and

D. corporations engaged in this state in providing telephone or telegraph service to the public.

History: 1953 Comp., § 68-11-6, enacted by Laws 1961, ch. 76, § 1; 1973, ch. 253, § 1.

Compiler's notes. — Sections 62-13-1 to 62-13-14 of the Public Utility Act are still effective as the repeal of Chapter 62, Article 13 by Laws 1998, Chapter 108, Section 82, effective July 1, 2003 Chapter 108, Section 82 was repealed prior to taking effect by Chapter 23, Section 1, Laws 2003. Although Laws 2003, Chapter 336, Section 8, amended Laws 1998, Chapter 82, as amended, an amendment of a repealed section is ineffective. See Quintana v. N.M. Dep't of Corrs., 100 N.M. 224, 668 P.2d 1101 (1983). Laws 2003, Chapter 416, Section 5 also repealed Laws 1998, Chapter 108, Section 82, as amended, a second time, however, that repeal is of no effect as the section had previously been repealed by Chapter 23, Section 1, Laws 2003.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 64 Am. Jur. 2d Public Utilities §§ 6 to 8, 256.

29 C.J.S. Electricity § 19; 38A C.J.S. Gas § 42; 73B C.J.S. Public Utilities §§ 8, 15, 72; 86 C.J.S. Telegraphs, Telephones, Radio and Television § 17.