{"data":{"id":"us-nm/73-20-5","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"73-20-5","heading":"Area.","body":"The land area embraced in districts must be contiguous and must lie within a well-defined watershed area or subwatershed areas. The districts may embrace lands lying in one or more soil and water conservation districts, or lands lying partly within and partly outside a soil and water conservation district.","path":["Chapter 73 - Special Districts","ARTICLE 20 Soil and Water and Watershed Conservation Districts"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18576/index.do","current_through":"2026-05-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"37c5001bee1519fceb179cdd812634a79af9537607426ad262dc08d24de5b564","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/73-20-4","next":"us-nm/73-20-6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}