0001| HOUSE BILL 928
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0002| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| PAULINE K. GUBBELS
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| RELATING TO WATER CONSERVATION; ENACTING SECTIONS OF THE NMSA
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0012| 1978 TO DEFINE BENEFICIAL USE TO INCLUDE WATER RIGHTS
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0013| CONSERVATION.
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0015| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016| Section 1. A new section of Chapter 72 NMSA 1978 is
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0017| enacted to read:
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0018| "[NEW MATERIAL] BENEFICIAL USE INCLUDES WATER RIGHTS
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0019| CONSERVATION.--
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0020| A. As used in Chapter 72 NMSA 1978, "beneficial
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0021| use" includes water rights conservation. "Water rights
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0022| conservation" means the reduction in amount of diversion or use
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0023| of a water right, declared, permitted or adjudicated in
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0024| accordance with the laws of this state, to divert and
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0025| beneficially use water for purposes other than conservation.
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0001| B. Water rights conservation includes use of:
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0002| (1) irrigation systems designed to maximize
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0003| water use efficiency of plants;
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0004| (2) devices to maximize water use efficiency
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0005| of domestic and commercial bathroom and kitchen appliances and
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0006| plumbing; or
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0007| (3) southwest native and desert-adapted plant
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0008| species for landscaping or commercial crop production."
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0009|
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0010| State of New Mexico
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0011| House of Representatives
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0013| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0014| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0017| March 18, 1997
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0020| Mr. Speaker:
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0022| Your AGRICULTURE AND WATER RESOURCES COMMITTEE,
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0023| to whom has been referred
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0025| HOUSE BILL 928
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0002| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0003| recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:
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0005| 1. On page 1, line 23, after "right" strike the comma and
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0006| insert in lieu thereof "that has been previously".
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0008| 2. On page 1, lines 24 and 25, strike "for purposes other
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0009| than" and insert in lieu thereof "prior to institution of".
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0011| 3. On page 1, line 25, after "conservation" insert
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0012| "measures".
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0014| 4. On page 2, line 8, strike the quotation mark and between
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0015| lines 8 and 9, insert the following new subsection:
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0017| "C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
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0018| reinstate water rights that have been forfeited or abandoned
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0019| prior to the effective date of this section."".,
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0021| and thence referred to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
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0023| Respectfully submitted,
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0004| G. X. McSherry, Chairman
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0007| Adopted Not Adopted
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0009| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0011| Date
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0013| The roll call vote was 9 For 0 Against
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0014| Yes: 9
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0015| Excused: None
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0016| Absent: None
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0019| .118559.1
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0020| G:\BILLTEXT\BILLW_97\H0928
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