A. In any order of the court the words “the court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding,” shall be equivalent to a finding of existence of each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court and necessary from the proper signing and filing of the initial petitions to the date of the order to meet every legal requirement imposed by this act.

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Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 73-17-19

  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • 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.

B. No other or further evidence of the legal hypothecation of the proceeds of any special assessment levied hereunder, for the payment of bonds or warrants issued pursuant to this act shall be required than the passage of a resolution by the board of directors and the issuance of bonds or warrants in accordance therewith.

C. In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal record the usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors and abstracters may be used.

D. Where properly to describe any parcel of land, it would be necessary to use a long description, the appraisers after locating the land generally, may refer to the book and page of the public record of any instrument in which the land is described, or they may utilize plat numbers or other designations that may be established by the chief engineer in district surveys, copies of which surveys shall be received and filed in the office of the county clerk in the county or counties in which the lands are situated, which reference shall be sufficient for all the purposes of this act to identify the land described in the records so referred to.

E. It shall not be necessary, in any notice required to be published by this act, to specify the names of the owners of the lands or property of the persons interested therein; but any such notice may be addressed “To All Persons and Public Corporations Interested” with like effect as though such notice named by name every owner of any lands or property within the territory specified in the notice and every person interested therein and every lienor, actual or inchoate.