N.M. Stat. § 17-4-12
[Application for license; contents; maximum area; fencing.]
Any person having already established or desiring to establish or maintain a park or
lake for the purpose of keeping or propagating and selling the game or game fish
therein or to be placed therein, shall apply in writing to the warden [director of the
department of game and fish] stating the name, location, extent and proprietorship of
the same, and kind and as near as may be, the number of game or game fish kept or
desired to be kept therein, the term for which the license is desired and inclosing the fee
therefor, and if upon examination by the warden it shall appear that the application is in
good faith, and in other respects proper and reasonable, he shall grant to such applicant
a license therefor; provided that the maximum area that may be included within any
park shall not exceed three thousand two hundred acres, and that every park shall be
enclosed by a game proof fence which shall conform to specifications required by the
state game commission [state wildlife commission].