New Mexico § 62-2-22 [Irrigation companies; restrictions on use of water.]

New Mexico Statutes

§ 62-2-22 — [Irrigation companies; restrictions on use of water.]

New Mexico § 62-2-22

Ch. 62Electric, Gas and Water Utilities

Art. 2Incorporation and Powers of Waterworks

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N.M. Stat. Ann. § 62-2-22 (2026).

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That no incorporation of any company or companies to supply water for the purposes of irrigation and other purposes, shall have any right to divert the usual and natural flow of water of any stream which by Section 73-2-9 NMSA 1978 has been declared a public acequia for any use whatever, between the fifteenth day of February and the fifteenth day of October of each year, unless it be with the unanimous consent of all and every person holding agricultural and cultivated lands under such stream or public acequia, and to be irrigated by the water furnished by said stream or public acequia, and that no incorporation of any company or companies shall interfere with the water rights of any individual or company, acquired prior to February 24, 1887.

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That no incorporation of any company or companies to supply water for the purposes of irrigation and other purposes, shall have any right to divert the usual and natural flow of water of any stream which by Section 73-2-9 NMSA 1978 has been declared a public acequia for any use whatever, between the fifteenth day of February and the fifteenth day of October of each year, unless it be with the unanimous consent of all and every person holding agricultural and cultivated lands under such stream or public acequia, and to be irrigated by the water furnished by said stream or public acequia, and that no incorporation of any company or companies shall interfere with the water rights of any individual or company, acquired prior to February 24, 1887.