The commissioner of public lands is authorized to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with the forestry division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department for the protection and conservation of forests and denuded forest areas under the commissioner's jurisdiction and control and is authorized to pay the assessments thereunder from the state land office maintenance fund, provided that such contracts and agreements do not commit the use of the lands in a manner and do not entail expenditures of the maintenance fund contrary to the provisions of the act of congress dated June 20, 1910, entitled Enabling Act for New Mexico. History: 1953 Comp., § 62-3-7, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 122, § 7; 1977, ch. 254, § 80; 1978 Comp., § 68-2-11; 2023, ch. 64, § 8. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the Enabling Act, see the New Mexico Territorial Laws and Treaties on NMOneSource.com. The 2023 amendment, effective June 16, 2023, authorized the commissioner of public lands to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with the forestry division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department for the protection and conservation of forests; and after lands to enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with the forestry division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department for the protection and conservation of forests; and after 'agreements with the', added 'forestry', and after 'division', added 'of the energy, minerals and natural resources department'. Law reviews. — For note, 'Forest Fire Protection on Public and Private Lands in New Mexico,' see 4 Nat. Resources J. 374 (1964).
New Mexico Legal Code