New Mexico Statutes Chapter 42A. Condemnation Proceedings § 42A-3-1. State, county, municipality or school district; appropriation of property; nature of interest

(1) public buildings and grounds;

(2) canals, aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, flumes, ditches, conduits for conducting or storing water for drainage, the raising of banks of streams and the removing of obstructions;

(3) roads, streets, alleys and thoroughfares;

(4) public parks and playgrounds;

(5) ferries, bridges, electric railroads or other thoroughfares or passways for vehicles;

(6) canals, ditches, flumes, aqueducts and conduits for irrigation;

(7) electric lines;

(8) electric utility plants, properties and facilities consistent with the authority granted in Chapter 3, Article 24 NMSA 1978;

(9) the production of sand, gravel, caliche and rock used or needed for building, surfacing or maintaining streets, alleys, highways or other public grounds or thoroughfares; and

(10) public airports or landing fields incident to the operation of aircraft.