TITLE 2: NATURAL RESOURCES
DIVISION 4: LAND RESOURCES
§ 4302. Establishment of Area; Requirements for Use of Homestead Tracts. (a) Subject to N.M.I. Const. art. XI, § 5, the Public Land Corporation shall determine and establish: (1) The maximum area of land allowable for each agricultural, grazing, or village lot homestead tract within the Commonwealth; (2) Standards and requirements for the use, occupation and development of the homestead tracts within the Commonwealth; and (3) That amount of land which a person, clan, lineage, family or group of persons may own within the Commonwealth, the excess of which shall prevent the acquisition of land for homesteading. (b) The Public Land Corporation shall file a copy of each of its determinations under this section with the Commonwealth Recorder’s Office. Source: 67 TTC § 202, modified. Commission Comment: The functions described in 67 TTC § 202 have been placed with the Public Land Corporation. In subsection (b), the filing requirements have been transferred from the Clerk of Courts to the Commonwealth Recorder; see 1 CMC § 3701 et seq. With respect to the references to the “Public Land Corporation,” see Executive Order 94-3 (effective August 23, 1994), reorganizing the executive branch, changing agency names and official titles, and effecting other changes, set forth in the Commission comment to 1 CMC § 2001; see also the comment to 2 CMC § 4142.