N.M. Stat. § 72-20-2
Legislative declaration.
It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that:
A. the organization of the authority hereby created having the purposes, powers,
duties, privileges, immunities, rights, liabilities and disabilities provided in the Eastern
Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act will serve a public use and will promote the
health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants thereof and of
the state;
B. the acquisition, improvement, maintenance and operation of any project
authorized in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act is in the public
interest and constitutes a part of the established and permanent policy of the state;
C. the authority hereby organized shall be a body corporate and politic, a quasi-
municipal corporation and a political subdivision of the state;
D. the flood control system hereby authorized and directed to be acquired will be of
special benefit to the property within the boundaries of the authority organized and
created in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act;
E. the notice provided for in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act
for each hearing and action to be taken is reasonably calculated to inform any person of
interest in any proceedings under that act that may directly and adversely affect that
person's legally protected interests;
F. a general law cannot be made applicable to the designated flood control system
and the provisions appertaining thereto in the Eastern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood
Control Act because of a number of atypical and special conditions concerning them;
and
G. for the accomplishment of these purposes, the provisions of the Eastern
Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act shall be broadly construed.