§ 72-19-2 — Legislative declaration

It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that: A. the organization of the authority hereby created having the purposes, powers, duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities and disabilities provided in the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act will serve a public use and will promote the health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants thereof and of the state; B. the acquisition, improvement, maintenance and operation of any project authorized in that act is in the public interest and constitutes a part of the established and permanent policy of the state; C. the authority hereby organized shall be a body corporate and politic, a quasi- municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the state; D. the flood control system hereby authorized and directed to be acquired will be of special benefit to the property within the boundaries of the authority organized and created in the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act; E. the notice provided for in the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act for each hearing and action to be taken is reasonably calculated to inform any person of interest in any proceedings under that act which may directly and adversely affect his legally protected interests; F. a general law cannot be made applicable to the designated flood control system and the provisions appertaining thereto in the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act because of a number of atypical and special conditions concerning them; and G. for the accomplishment of these purposes, the provisions of that act shall be broadly construed.

Legislative History

Laws 1990, ch. 14, § 2.