Subject to the procedures set forth in the Special District Procedures Act [4-53-1 to 4-53-11 NMSA 1978], where applicable, the district court sitting in and for any county in this state may establish districts which may be entirely within or partly within and partly without the judicial district in which the court is located; provided, any part or parcels of the district lying in two or more counties shall be contiguous with one another. History: 1941 Comp., § 77-3404, enacted by Laws 1943, ch. 80, § 4; 1953 Comp., § 75-18-4; Laws 1977, ch. 345, § 4. ANNOTATIONSWater and sanitation districts are creatures of district courts and are established in accordance with specific statutory procedure; such districts become governmental subdivisions of the state and bodies corporate with powers of public or quasi-municipal corporation. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-56. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 39A C.J.S. Health and Environment § 7.
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