Whenever a majority of the resident freeholders, representing a majority of the number of acres of the land included in any irrigation district organized or hereafter to be organized under this act [73-12-1 to 73-12-57 NMSA 1978], shall petition the board of directors to call a special election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said irrigation district a proposition to vote on the question of dissolution of said irrigation district, setting forth in said petition that all obligations, bills and claims of every nature whatsoever have been fully satisfied and paid, it shall be the duty of said directors, if they shall be satisfied that all obligations, claims and bills have been fully satisfied, to call an election, setting forth the object of the said election, and to cause notice of said election to be published in some newspaper in each of the counties in which any part of said district is located, for a period of thirty (30) days next prior to said election, setting forth the time and place for holding said election in each of the voting precincts in said district. It shall also be the duty of the directors to prepare ballots to be used at said election on which shall be written or printed words: "For Dissolution - Yes," and "For Dissolution - No."

History: Laws 1929, ch. 76, § 49; C.S. 1929, § 73-749; 1941 Comp., § 77-2449; 1953 Comp., § 75-25-49.

Effective dates. — Laws 1929, ch. 76, contained no effective date provision, but was enacted at a session which adjourned on March 9, 1929. See N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 45 Am. Jur. 2d Irrigation § 58.

94 C.J.S. Waters § 338.