New Mexico Statutes Chapter 19. Public Lands § 19-7-41. Foreclosure of assignments; rights of purchaser

The collateral assignments of record in the state land office upon grazing leases may be foreclosed in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of chattel mortgages, and the collateral assignments of record in the state land office upon state purchase contracts may be foreclosed in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate, and the purchaser at any sale under such foreclosure, if otherwise qualified to lease or purchase state land, as the case may be, on the filing with the commissioner of public lands of the transfer to him of any such lease or purchase contract, pursuant to any such foreclosure sale, and the payment of all delinquent payments on the lease or purchase contract so transferred, shall be entitled to a new lease or purchase contract on his compliance with all the conditions governing the lease or purchase of state lands, now or hereafter provided by law, or by regulation of the commissioner of public lands; provided, however, that in the event the collateral assignment foreclosed was subject to or inferior to a prior assignment, a purchaser at such foreclosure sale shall take such new lease or purchase contract subject to all prior assignments filed and approved in accordance with this act. Any purchaser at such foreclosure sale shall also be entitled to the improvements on the lands covered by the lease or purchase contract purchased by him and to all rights of renewal of any such lease held by the original lessee; subject, however, to the rights of the holders of any prior assignments of record in the state land office.