SENATE BILL 560

45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

INTRODUCED BY

Carroll H. Leavell







AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SUPPORT MEDIATION OF WATER RIGHTS DETERMINATIONS IN THE CARLSBAD IRRIGATION DISTRICT.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. APPROPRIATION.--Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the local government division of the department of finance and administration for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 to contract with the Carlsbad irrigation district to support mediation and arbitration processes pursuant to adjudications of water rights of individual landowner members. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the general fund.

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