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New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978

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Appropriation and Use of Surface Water

State of New Mexico

72-5-1Application for permit; rules; surveys, etc 72-5-2Existing community ditches 72-5-3Application; amendment; refiling 72-5-4Notice; publication 72-5-5Objections to applications; filing of protests; definition of standing 72-5-5.1Purposes 72-5-6Hearing; approval; permit 72-5-7Application; rejection; noncompliance with rules; conservation and public welfare 72-5-8Construction of works; additional time 72-5-9Supervision; inspection; completion of works; alterations 72-5-10[State engineer's certificate of construction.]72-5-11Inspection and correction of unsafe works 72-5-12Failure to comply with state engineer order; penalty 72-5-13[Issuance of license to appropriate water.]72-5-14Time for construction; extension 72-5-15[Common use; enlargement and maintenance of works; lien for costs.]72-5-16[Priority of liens.]72-5-17Excess waters; sale 72-5-18Water allowance 72-5-19[Standards for measuring flow and volume of water.]72-5-20Headgates and measuring devices 72-5-21[Recording of permits, decrees and documents; certified copies.]72-5-22[Transfer of water rights.]72-5-23Water appurtenant to land; change of place of use 72-5-24Change of purpose; change of point of diversion 72-5-24.1Acequias and community ditches; changes in point of diversion or place or purpose of use 72-5-25Emergency; change of point of diversion; procedure 72-5-26[Diversion from watershed or into another stream.]72-5-27Artificial water; no right of continuance of supply 72-5-28Failure to use water; forfeiture 72-5-29[Rights of residents of upper valleys of stream systems.]72-5-30[Effect of return flow above diversion or storage works of other appropriators.]72-5-31[Appeal; prior rights not impaired.]72-5-32Construction and operation of dams; state engineer authority 72-5-33Federal reclamation projects; appropriation for 72-5-34State transportation commission; change of water use; application, notice and hearing 72-5-35State transportation commission; advance water withdrawal 72-5-36State transportation commission; unused water accrual; withdrawal rate; accounting 72-5-37State transportation commission; transfer of water rights to unused water; reversion 72-5-38[State water rights for highway purposes and airports; nonforfeiture for failure to use.]72-5-39Illegal application of water; injunction or other relief