{"data":{"id":"us-nm/75-1-2","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"75-1-2","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in the Rural Infrastructure Act:\nA. \"department\" means the department of environment;\nB. \"fund\" means the rural infrastructure revolving loan fund;\nC. \"local authority\" means a mutual domestic association or water and sanitation district that supplies water, wastewater or solid waste services to, or a municipality that has, a population of less than twenty thousand or a county with a population of less than two hundred thousand;\nD. \"operate and maintain\" means all necessary activities, including replacement of equipment or appurtenances to assure the dependable and economical function of a facility in accordance with its intended purpose;\nE. \"secretary\" means the secretary of environment;\nF. \"solid waste facility\" includes transfer and convenience facilities, landfills or other equipment or systems used for the processing, transformation, recycling or disposal of solid waste;\nG. \"wastewater facility\" includes collection lines, pumping equipment, treatment works and disposal piping or process units; and\nH. \"water supply facility\" includes the source of supply of water, pumping equipment, storage facilities, transmission lines, treatment works and distribution systems.","path":["Chapter 75 - Miscellaneous Natural Resource Matters","ARTICLE 1 Rural Infrastructure"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18578/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"64d89315745b134ceaefe08c74b17bbc27e74a0f4a0ad45eb080b73105086bc1","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/75-1-1","next":"us-nm/75-1-2.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}