Section 73-13-35 - Accounts kept by treasurer; payments; monthly report; depositories. - New Mexico Statutes

73-13-35. [Accounts kept by treasurer; payments; monthly report; depositories.]

It shall be the duty of the treasurer to keep a district bond fund account, a district contract fund account, a district operation and maintenance fund account and a district general fund account, and the proceeds of the taxes collected shall be covered into the respective funds. The district bond fund shall consist of all moneys collected for principal and interest of the bonds issued by said district; the district contract fund shall consist of all moneys received from taxes levied to provide for payment to the United States; the operation and maintenance fund shall consist of all moneys received on account of the operation and maintenance of irrigation and drainage system, except moneys to be paid to the United States pursuant to any contract; and the feneral [general] fund shall consist of all moneys received on account of current and miscellaneous expenses, not to be covered into any of the foregoing funds. Provided, however, that the treasurer and other officers of irrigation districts, other than those organized to cooperate with the government of the United States under federal reclamation law, shall not be required to keep a contract fund account.   

The treasurer shall pay out of the district bond fund when due, the interest and principal of said bonds of said district, at the time and place specified in said bonds. The treasurer shall pay out of the said contract fund, all payments as they become due to the United States under contract at the time and in the manner provided in said contract. The treasurer shall pay out of said operation and maintenance fund, only upon warrants signed by the president or vice president, and countersigned by the secretary of the district directed to such party or parties as are due payment for operating and maintaining said irrigation and drainage system. The treasurer shall pay out of said general fund only upon order signed by the president or vice president, and countersigned by the secretary of said district.   

The treasurer, on the fifteenth day of each month, shall report to the board of directors of said district, the amount of money in his hands to the credit of the respective funds above provided. All district taxes collected and paid to the treasurer, as aforesaid, shall be by him deposited in a bank or banks to be designated by the board of directors as a depository, and the board of directors is hereby created a board of finance, and the funds of said district shall be deposited in accordance with the law in force in respect to public depositories.