Any person proposing to drill wells or recomplete existing wells to appropriate waters referred to in Section 1 [72-12-25 NMSA 1978] of this act shall file a notice of intention to drill or recomplete with the office of the state engineer in such form as the engineer shall prescribe, and shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the proposed wells will be located, once a week for three consecutive weeks, stating the location and the proposed depth of such wells, the purpose for which the water shall be used and an estimate of the volume of water to be used. Said wells shall not be drilled or recompleted prior to ten days after the last publication of such notice.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-11-38, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 86, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For publication of legal notice, see 14-11-1 NMSA 1978.
For the state engineer, see 72-2-1 NMSA 1978.
Law reviews. — For article, "Centralized Decisionmaking in the Administration of Groundwater Rights: The Experience of Arizona, California and New Mexico and Suggestions for the Future," see 24 Nat. Resources J. 641 (1984).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 345.