The land area embraced in districts must be contiguous and must lie within a well-defined watershed area or subwatershed areas. The districts may embrace lands lying in one or more soil and water conservation districts, or lands lying partly within and partly outside a soil and water conservation district.
§ 73-20-5 NMSA 1978
Area
1953 Comp., § 45-5-23, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 210, § 5; 1973, ch. 332, § 3; 1977, ch. 254, § 47.
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.