State saline lands and state lands known to contain valuable minerals, petroleum or natural gas in paying quantities, and sections of state lands adjoining lands upon which there are producing mines, oil wells or gas wells, or which are known to contain valuable minerals, petroleum or natural gas in paying quantities, shall not be sold, but may be leased as provided in this chapter.
§ 19-7-25 NMSA 1978
[Reservation from sale of saline, mineral and oil and gas lands; leasing authorized.]
Laws 1912, ch. 82, § 40a; Code 1915, § 5218; C.S. 1929, § 132-141; 1941 Comp., § 8-826; 1953 Comp., § 7-8-26.
Official source: NMOneSource (New Mexico Compilation Commission). Reproduced from public-domain New Mexico statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.