N.M. Stat. § 72-2-6
Fees; amount; disposition.
The state engineer shall receive the following fees to be paid by him into the general
fund:
A. for filing notice of intention to make formal application for permit to appropriate
surface water, twenty-five dollars ($25.00), which shall be paid at the time of filing notice
of intention;
B. for filing a formal application for permit to appropriate water where the project is
chiefly for diversion and direct use of the water, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) if the
amount claimed does not exceed five cubic feet of water per second, and five dollars
($5.00) for each cubic foot per second in excess of five; or, if the project is chiefly for
storage of excess and flood waters, ten dollars ($10.00) for each one thousand acre-
feet or fraction thereof of storage capacity; or, if the project is for power purposes only,
in which the water is returned to the river bed in substantially undiminished quantity,
twenty-five dollars ($25.00), if the amount claimed does not exceed five cubic feet of
water per second, and one dollar ($1.00) for each cubic foot per second of time in
excess of five; provided, however, that if application for permit is preceded by a notice
of intention, the fee accompanying the notice of intention shall be applied on the
subsequent fees. Fees included under this subsection, which shall be paid to the state
engineer at the time of filing formal application for permit, shall include the filing of
maps, plans, specifications, field notes, proof of publication and all other papers relating
to the application, up to the issuing of the permit to appropriate water, and shall include
the examination and study of all data therein with the exception of plans and
specifications, for the examination and study of which additional fees shall be collected
as prescribed in this section;
C. for examining in connection with any water right application the plans and
specifications for a dam, two dollars ($2.00) for each one thousand dollars ($1,000) or
fraction thereof of the estimated cost of such dam; for examining the plans and
specifications for canal or other water conduit, twenty-five dollars ($25.00), where the
capacity does not exceed fifty cubic feet of water per second, and ten dollars ($10.00)
for each additional fifty cubic feet per second or fraction thereof. The fees shall be paid
to the state engineer before he issues the permit to appropriate water; provided that no
fee shall be paid for examining plans and specifications submitted by the United States
or any agency or department of the United States;
D. for issuing any certificate of construction or license to appropriate, twenty-five
dollars ($25.00);
E. for issuing a permit for an extension of time, fifty dollars ($50.00);
F. for issuing any miscellaneous water right instrument or copy of any water right
document filed in his office, one dollar ($1.00) for the first page thereof, and fifteen cents
($.15) for each additional page thereof;
G. for filing any other paper necessarily forming a part of the permanent record of
the water right application, permit or license, one dollar ($1.00);
H. for a contact reproduction of any map or plan sheet accompanying an application
for permit to appropriate water, three dollars ($3.00) for each sheet; for a negative of
any map or plan sheet suitable to reproduce copies thereof, five dollars ($5.00) for each
sheet;
I. for inspecting damsites, dams, irrigation systems or other construction work as
required by law, one hundred dollars ($100) per day and actual and necessary traveling
expenses. Fees for any inspection deemed necessary by the state engineer and not
paid on demand shall be a lien on any land or other property of the owner of the works
and may be recovered by the state engineer in any court of competent jurisdiction; and
J. for such other work as may be required of his office, such reasonable fees as in
the judgment of the state engineer the character and extent of the work justifies.