New Mexico § 73-8-33 [Compensation and expenses of directors and president;

New Mexico Statutes

§ 73-8-33 — [Compensation and expenses of directors and president;

New Mexico § 73-8-33

Ch. 73Special Districts

Art. 8Drainage Districts Within Federal Reclamation

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N.M. Stat. Ann. § 73-8-33 (2026).

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offenses; penalty.] Members of the board of directors of any such drainage district, other than the president, shall each receive compensation at the rate of two and 50-100 dollars [($2.50)] per day while attending meetings of the board, or otherwise necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties, and their actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred while engaged upon official business. The president shall receive as compensation one hundred dollars [($100)] per annum for each ten thousand acres of land, or major fraction thereof, included within the drainage district, and his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred while engaged upon official business. No director or officer named in this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] shall in any manner be interested directly or

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offenses; penalty.] Members of the board of directors of any such drainage district, other than the president, shall each receive compensation at the rate of two and 50-100 dollars [($2.50)] per day while attending meetings of the board, or otherwise necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties, and their actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred while engaged upon official business. The president shall receive as compensation one hundred dollars [($100)] per annum for each ten thousand acres of land, or major fraction thereof, included within the drainage district, and his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred while engaged upon official business. No director or officer named in this act [73-8-1 to 73-8-60 NMSA 1978] shall in any manner be interested directly or indirectly in any contract awarded or to be awarded by the board of directors, or in the profits to be derived therefrom; nor shall he receive any bonus, gratuity or bribe; and for any violation of this provision any such officer upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars [($500)], or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment; and such conviction shall work a forfeiture of his office.