New Mexico § 72-10-2 [Injuries or obstructions; powers of commissioners;

New Mexico Statutes

§ 72-10-2 — [Injuries or obstructions; powers of commissioners;

New Mexico·Ch. 72 Water Law·Art. 10 Community Uses

penalty; civil liability.] The said commissioner [commissioners] shall have lawful power and authority to prevent any and all persons from placing any obstruction whatsoever in any of such community springs and from in any manner injuring or destroying any dam, breakwater or tank connected therewith, and shall have authority to enter complaint against any person who shall wilfully injure, break or obstruct any such spring, dam or breakwater, before any justice of the peace [magistrate] having jurisdiction and any person so accused upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace [magistrate] having jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars [($5.00)] nor more than twenty-five dollars [($25.00)], and shall also be liable to the community in a civil suit for dam

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penalty; civil liability.] The said commissioner [commissioners] shall have lawful power and authority to prevent any and all persons from placing any obstruction whatsoever in any of such community springs and from in any manner injuring or destroying any dam, breakwater or tank connected therewith, and shall have authority to enter complaint against any person who shall wilfully injure, break or obstruct any such spring, dam or breakwater, before any justice of the peace [magistrate] having jurisdiction and any person so accused upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace [magistrate] having jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars [($5.00)] nor more than twenty-five dollars [($25.00)], and shall also be liable to the community in a civil suit for damages to be brought by the said commissioners in the name and for the use of such community.

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