At a glance
Trust integrity: Under review (methodology)- Enabling Act
- Arizona-New Mexico Enabling Act (1910), 36 Stat. 557
- Trust fund value
- Pending
- AG opinions on file
- None on file
- Key cases
- 1
- Advocacy contact
- pending
Why this state matters
Express 'in trust' language in the 1910 Enabling Act. State Land Office manages roughly 9 million surface acres and 13 million mineral acres for trust beneficiaries.
Key cases
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United States v. New Mexico , 438 U.S. 696 (1978)
Holding. Federal reserved water rights extend only to the primary purposes of the federal reservation; ancillary purposes must be supplied by state law.
Why it matters. Cited in trust-lands water cases for the proposition that the scope of federal reservation doctrine constrains, but does not displace, state trust-land claims to water revenues.
Notable AG opinions
No Attorney General opinions for New Mexico have been placed on file here yet. They are added as they are located and read.
Sources: Margaret Bird, Trust Land Case Quotes by Topic (2021); the OASTL legal record; ASTL thematic research.
