Chapter 67 — Chapter 67

maturity; prior redemption.] Said bonds may be issued in the aggregate amount to be determined by the board of county commissioners, and in denominations of one hundred dollars [($100)] each or some multiple thereof, and shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum…

Whenever there shall be filed with the board of county commissioners a petition signed by not less than ten per centum of the qualified electors in any county in the state who are taxpayers therein, asking for the issuance of bonds for the purposes above specified in an amount to…

frequency.] The election herein provided for shall be held under the same substantial provisions, and the votes cast for or against such bond issue shall be counted, returned and canvassed and declared, in the same manner and subject to the same rules as votes cast for county off…

There shall be collected annually, in the same manner and at the same time as other county taxes are collected, such a sum in addition to the ordinary revenue of the county as shall be required to pay the principal and interest on said bonds as herein provided; and it is hereby m…

and interest.] The treasurer of any county issuing bonds as aforesaid shall create a fund to be known and designated as the county highway sinking fund, and on the first day of July of each and every year in which a parcel of the bonds sold pursuant to the provisions of this arti…

Immediately after the sale of bonds, as in this article provided, the county treasurer shall pay into the county treasury and cause to be placed in the county road fund the total amount received for said bonds, and the moneys placed in the said county road fund pursuant to the pr…

It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or persons to in any manner obstruct any public road in this state, by putting therein or thereon any obstruction whatsoever, and all persons convicted of a violation of this section shall upon conviction before any court of competent…

A. The public highways in the state are dedicated to reasonable use by the public. B. It is unlawful for any person to injure or damage any public highway, street, road or any bridge, culvert, sign, signpost, other traffic control or safety device or structure upon or used or con…

Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, marshals, police officers and all peace officers shall have power to arrest any person violating any provision of this act [67-7-10, 67-7- 11 NMSA 1978] on view or upon warrant issued by any justice of the peace [magistrate court] or magistr…

prohibited.] No person or persons shall erect any fence, house or other structure, or dig pits or holes in or upon any highway or place thereon any stone, timber, trees or any obstruction whatsoever; and no person or persons shall tear down, burn or otherwise damage any bridge of…

prohibited.] When any public road heretofore laid out or traveled as such or hereafter to be laid out or traveled, crosses any creek or stream of water, and such stream during any part of the year is usually fordable where such road passes the same, the said ford and the banks of…

damages; penalty.] No person or persons, corporation or company, shall dam the waters of any stream so as to cause the same to overflow any road, or damage or weaken the abutments, walls or embankments of any bridge or any highway. Any person or persons, corporation or company, v…

All fines, penalties and forfeitures incurred under any provisions of Sections 67-7-3, 67-7-4 and 67-7-2 NMSA 1978, except as otherwise provided, shall be recoverable by an action of debt in the name of the people of the state of New Mexico in any court of competent jurisdiction.…

Any farmer, mayordomo of acequia or other person having charge of irrigation or drainage waters, who, through neglect, oversight, carelessness or design, shall allow irrigation or drainage waters to flow upon any public highway so as to hinder, delay or obstruct travel, or any pe…

Any farmer, mayordomo of acequia or other person having charge of irrigation or drainage waters, who, through neglect, oversight, carelessness or design, shall allow irrigation or drainage waters to flow upon any public highway, so as to hinder, delay or obstruct travel, or any p…

If any person or persons, or mayordomos of acequias, should have to make ditches across the roads to pass the water to their fields, gardens or mills, they shall construct a bridge sufficiently wide and strong for loaded wagons or carts to pass over, so that no obstruction will b…

Any person or persons, corporation or company, owning or constructing any ditch, raise, drain, flume, in, upon or across any highway shall keep the highway open for safe and convenient travel, by constructing bridges over such ditch, raise, drain or flume, or by providing other s…

construction.] Hereafter any person, firm, association, copartnership, contractor or corporation engaged in the alteration, repair or construction of any bridge, road or public highway in this state shall maintain at all times proper danger signals, or lights, posted conspicuousl…

rights-of-way.] No person shall place, erect or maintain any advertising sign, signboard or device of any character upon or over the right-of-way of or upon any land adjacent to any public highway, outside of an incorporated city, town or village under any of the following condit…

Any sign, signboard or device erected, placed or maintained in violation of the provisions of this act is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. History: 1941 Comp., § 58-712a, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 92, § 5; 1953 Comp., § 55-7-13; Laws 1961, ch. 73, § 1.

The provisions of this act shall be enforced by the attorney general or by the several district attorneys of the state in their respective districts by any appropriate remedy. History: 1941 Comp., § 58-712c, enacted by Laws 1953, ch. 92, § 7; 1953 Comp., § 55-7-15.

application. It is unlawful for any person, company or corporation to place or cause to be placed any conduit, wires or cables across, upon, attached to or upon the highway right of way parallel to and within twenty-five feet of any state highway bridge or structure except pursua…

A violation of the above statute [67-8-13 NMSA 1978] shall constitute a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by fine of not less than fifty dollars [($50.00)], and not more than two hundred dollars [($200)], or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than three months, an…

A. The construction of modern highways is necessary to promote public safety, facilitate the movement of present-day motor traffic, both interstate and intrastate in character, and to promote the national defense, and in the construction of such highways it is also in the public …

As used in Sections 67-8-15 through 67-8-21 NMSA 1978: A. "utility" means publicly, privately and cooperatively owned utilities, without distinction, for the rendition of water, electric power, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, steam, fuel gas, telephone or telegraph service through a…

A. The commission may, after notice and hearing, by order provide for the relocation of utility facilities within a public highway (including, if required, the entire removal therefrom of certain facilities except as necessary to serve abutting premises or as necessary to cross t…

A. In the following types of utility relocation ordered by the commission pursuant to Section 3 A [67-8-17A NMSA 1978] it shall either, as it elects, undertake the relocation work on behalf of the state, paying the cost of relocation, or reimburse the utility for the cost of relo…

A. All hearings held pursuant to this section shall be public and upon not less than fifteen days' written notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing to each utility whose services or facilities may be affected and to each municipality in which any part of the proposed …

Any person found guilty of violating the provisions of this act [67-8-1, 67-8-2 NMSA 1978] shall be fined in a sum not less than $50.00, and shall be liable for the damages sustained to any person injured by reason of the failure to comply with the provisions of this act. History…

A. This act [67-8-15 to 67-8-21 NMSA 1978] shall not apply to any relocation of facilities for a public highway project which is sufficiently advanced that prior to the effective date hereof a relocation in specific terms shall have been required by a relocation notice given to o…

reimbursement for cost of relocation. A. Under the provisions of this section, the commission shall reimburse cities, towns, villages and counties for cost of relocation of municipally or county owned utility facilities where relocation is required because of the construction or …

A. No person shall remain, or willfully allow any property under his control to remain, in any publicly owned and controlled rest and recreation area or sanitary or tourist information facility, which area or facility is located immediately adjacent to a public highway and is int…

The department shall expend an additional two million dollars ($2,000,000) in the sixty-eighth and subsequent fiscal years, over and above amounts expended in the sixty-seventh fiscal year, to assist municipalities, school districts and counties through cooperative agreements for…

Where any public road in this state passes over the public lands it shall be lawful for the board of county commissioners to permit the sides of such road to be fenced whenever a majority of the legal voters of the precinct through which said public road passes so desire: provide…

commissioners.] It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county in this state to cause to be placed conspicuously and permanently at the forks of all public and main-traveled roads in their respective counties, and at all such roads crossing or leading aw…

When an index board shall be removed or defaced the commissioners shall cause same to be immediately replaced. History: Laws 1912, ch. 30, § 2; Code 1915, § 2704; C.S. 1929, § 64-1502; 1941 Comp., § 58-705; 1953 Comp., § 55-7-5.

The expenses of erecting and replacing such index boards shall be paid out of the road fund. History: Laws 1912, ch. 30, § 3; Code 1915, § 2705; C.S. 1929, § 64-1503; 1941 Comp., § 58-706; 1953 Comp., § 55-7-6.

penalty.] It shall be unlawful to deface, disfigure, destroy or otherwise in any manner interfere with any such index board, whether same be placed by public authority or by any citizen of the state. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a …

The following words and phrases as used in this act [67-8-8 to 67-8-10 NMSA 1978] shall for the purpose of this act have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: A. "public highw…

outside incorporated cities prohibited.] No person shall place, erect or maintain any advertising sign, signboard or device of any character upon or over the right-of-way or right-of-way fences of any public highway within this state outside of the limits of any incorporated city…

establishment; route.] There is hereby established a public wagon road from the city limits of Santa Fe, in the county of Santa Fe, to the city limits of Las Vegas, county of San Miguel, which said road shall be constructed over the most feasible route through or near the canon o…

There is hereby established a public highway through the state of New Mexico, to be known as "El Camino Real," which said highway shall have for its northern terminus a point in the Raton mountains on the state line between Colorado and New Mexico, where the old Barlow and Sander…

In incorporated cities and towns along said public highway, the municipal authorities shall construct and maintain said public highway. History: Laws 1905, ch. 7, § 7; Code 1915, § 2713; C.S. 1929, § 64-1607; 1941 Comp., § 58-803; 1953 Comp., § 55-8-3.

So far as practicable all bridges and culverts along said public highway shall be constructed of timber, stone or concrete, and no structural iron shall be used in the construction of any bridge except where absolutely necessary. History: Laws 1905, ch. 7, § 8; Code 1915, § 2714;…

At suitable points along said public highway, and at places of historic interest, there shall be erected stone monuments commemorative thereof, which said monuments shall be erected by labor of penitentiary convicts. History: Laws 1905, ch. 7, § 9; Code 1915, § 2715; C.S. 1929, §…

The state transportation commission is hereby authorized to cause a survey to be made for the purpose of determining the most feasible route for the establishment and location of a western extension of El Camino Real from a point at or near the town of Los Lunas in the county of …

All remaining portions of former United States route 66 under state highway and transportation department jurisdiction that are currently used in New Mexico shall be designated as "New Mexico Route 66". History: Laws 1999, ch. 194, § 1.

signs. The state highway and transportation department shall conduct an inventory of all current New Mexico state highway designation signs on former United States route 66 and add a second designation sign reading "New Mexico Route 66", contingent upon funding pursuant to the fe…

plat; franchise; extension.] That whenever any three or more persons, residents of this state, shall associate themselves together for the construction, operation and maintenance of any wagon road, wagon bridge or ferry in this state, under the provisions of this article, they sh…

A corporation may, after the completion of a wagon road or any part thereof and after the completion of a bridge or ferry for and by the traveling public, apply by petition in writing to the board of county commissioners of the county in or through which the road, bridge or ferry…