The director-at-large shall be the owner of class 'A' land within the district and shall be a resident of the district. The director for the municipal election precinct shall be a resident and shall be the owner of real estate within the district boundaries of the municipality. A director representing a district election precinct outside the municipality shall be a resident of the district and the owner of irrigable land within the voting precinct for which the director is a director. History: 1953 Comp., § 75-32-33, enacted by Laws 1955, ch. 281, § 9; 1993, ch. 285, § 5; 2018, ch. 79, § 155. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For classification of real property, see 73-18-6 NMSA 1978. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, made a minor technical change. The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, deleted 'of the municipality' following 'resident' and substituted 'within the district boundaries of the municipality' for 'therein' in the second sentence, and substituted 'district election precinct outside' for 'voting precinct outside of' and 'shall' for 'must' in the last sentence.
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