A. For the purpose of acquiring, maintaining, contracting for, condemning or protecting its water facilities and water from pollution, the jurisdiction of the municipality extends within and without its boundary to:

Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 3-27-3

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

(1)     all territory occupied by the water facilities;

(2)     all reservoirs, streams and other sources supplying the reservoirs and streams; and

(3)     five miles above the point from which the water is taken.

B. In exercising its jurisdiction to acquire, maintain, contract for or condemn and protect the water facilities, the municipality shall not act so as to physically isolate and make nonviable any portion of the water facilities, within or without the municipality. The municipality may adopt any ordinance and regulation necessary to carry out the power conferred by this section.

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