New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 2 - STATE TRUST LANDS PART 24 CULTURAL PROPERTIES PROTECTION
Part 7 - RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES LEASES
Section 19.2.7.16 - APPLICATION BY MAIL - SIMULTANEOUS APPLICANTS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Applications received in the same delivery of open mail shall be deemed to have been filed simultaneously and shall be stamped as of the date and hour delivery was made to the New Mexico state land office.
B. When newly acquired acreage is posted to the tract books, or when open acreage is designated upon the tract books to be open acreage after having been previously leased or withdrawn from leasing by the commissioner, all applications for lease filed thereon within three (3) New Mexico state land office work days after such posting or designating, shall be considered as simultaneous applications.
C. In computing the time, the day of relinquishment, expiration, posting or designation shall be disregarded.