§ 72-2-1 Appointment; removal; qualifications; duties; office; private practice prohibited
§ 72-2-2 Assistants; salary
§ 72-2-3 [Oath of office; bond.]
§ 72-2-4 Payment of accounts
§ 72-2-5 Annual report
§ 72-2-6 Fees; amount; disposition
§ 72-2-7 [Records to be public; certified copies as evidence.]
§ 72-2-8 Administrative regulations, codes, instructions, orders;
§ 72-2-9 [Supervising apportionment of waters.]
§ 72-2-9.1 Priority administration; expedited water marketing and leasing; state engineer
§ 72-2-9.2 Office of the state engineer; devices to measure river water
§ 72-2-10 [Legal advisers; duties.]
§ 72-2-11 [Board of water commissioners abolished; pending appeals.]
§ 72-2-12 Hearing examiners
§ 72-2-13 Depositions, written interrogatories and administrative conferences
§ 72-2-14 Subpoena power
§ 72-2-15 Failure or refusal to comply with subpoena; refusal to testify; body attachment; contempt
§ 72-2-16 Hearings required before appeal
§ 72-2-17 Hearing; notice; conduct; record
§ 72-2-18 State engineer; enforcement; compliance orders; penalty
§ 72-2-19 Advanced mapping fund; created
§ 72-2-20 Notice of applications; online posting; notice by publication; objections
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Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 72 > Article 2 - State Engineer

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • 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.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.