Statutes > New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 72 - Water Law. > Article 10 - Community Uses, 72-10-1 through 72-10-10. > Section 72-10-5 - Petition to county commissioners to build reservoirs; corporation.

Section 72-10-5 - Petition to county commissioners to build reservoirs; corporation.

72-10-5. [Petition to county commissioners to build reservoirs; corporation.]

Whenever said inhabitants shall have necessity to build such reservoirs or ponds of water they shall make a petition to the county commissioners of their county, with no less than one hundred signatures, which shall be constituted into a corporation to build such reservoir or pond.