N.M. Stat. § 72-17-38
Powers of public bodies.
The governing body of any municipality or other public body, upon its behalf and in
its name, for the purpose of aiding and cooperating in any project herein authorized,
upon the terms and with or without consideration and with or without an election, as the
governing body determines, may exercise the following powers:
A. sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer and otherwise dispose to
the authority, sewer facilities or any other property or any interest therein, appertaining
to a flood control system;
B. make available for temporary use or otherwise dispose to the authority any
machinery, equipment, facilities and other property, and any agents, employees,
persons with professional training, and any other persons, to effect the purposes hereof.
Any such property and persons owned or in the employ of any public body while
engaged in performing for the authority any service, activity or undertaking herein
authorized, pursuant to contract or otherwise, shall have and retain all of the powers,
privileges, immunities, rights and duties of, and shall be deemed to be engaged in the
service and employment of such public body, notwithstanding such service, activity or
undertaking is being performed in or for the authority;
C. enter into any agreement or joint agreement between or among the federal
government, the authority, and any other public body, or any combination thereof,
extending over any period not exceeding fifty years, which is mutually agreed thereby,
notwithstanding any law to the contrary, respecting action or proceedings appertaining
to any power herein granted, and the use or joint use of any facilities, project or other
property herein authorized;
D. sell, lease, loan, donate, grant, convey, assign, transfer, or pay over to the
authority any facilities or any project herein authorized, or any part thereof, or any
interest in real or personal property, or any funds available for acquisition, improvement
or equipment purposes, including the proceeds of any securities previously or hereafter
issued for acquisition, improvement or equipment purposes which may be used by the
authority in the acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance or operation of any
facilities or project herein authorized;
E. transfer, grant, convey or assign and set over to the authority any contracts
which may have been awarded by the public body for the acquisition, improvement or
equipment of any project not begun or if begun, not completed;
F. budget and appropriate, and each municipality or other public body is hereby
required and directed to budget and appropriate, from time to time, general ad valorem
tax proceeds, and other revenues legally available therefor to pay all obligations arising
from the exercise of any powers herein granted as such obligations shall accrue and
become due;
G. provide for an agency, by any agreement herein authorized, to administer or
execute that or any collateral agreement, which agency may be one of the parties to the
agreement, or a commission or board constituted pursuant to the agreement;
H. provide that any such agency shall possess the common power specified in the
agreement, and may exercise it in the manner or according to the method provided in
the agreement. Such power is subject to the restrictions upon the manner of exercising
the power of any one of the contracting parties, which party shall be designated by the
agreement;
I. continue any agreement herein authorized for a definite term not exceeding fifty
years, or until rescinded or terminated, which agreement may provide for method by
which it may be rescinded or terminated by any part.