All assessments levied to meet any indebtedness due or to become due to the United States pursuant to the reclamation law, rules and regulations, a reclamation contract or notices or statements issued by the secretary of the interior thereunder, together with all interest on all assessments and penalties for default in payment of the same, and all costs in collecting the same, shall from the date on which there is filed in the office of the assessor of the county in which is situated the property upon which such assessment is made a certified copy of the resolution of the board determining the amount of money to be raised, fixing the rate of such assessments and making a levy therefor, shall constitute a perpetual lien upon all the district real property against which such assessments shall be so levied, to which only the lien for general or special state, county, city, town, village or school taxes shall be paramount, and no sales of such property to enforce any general or special state, county, city, town, village, school tax or other lien shall extinguish the perpetual lien of such assessments nor extinguish the liability of such property to future assessment for payment of any indebtedness to the United States provided for in a reclamation contract; and every other assessment hereafter levied upon any real property within the district, under the provisions of this act [73-18-1 to 73-18-24 NMSA 1978], is and shall be a lien upon the property against which such assessment is levied. All such assessments shall be collected, and all such liens shall be enforced in the same manner as assessments of taxes for state and county purposes are collected and the liens thereof are enforced.

History: Laws 1939, ch. 148, § 10; 1941 Comp., § 77-3110; Laws 1947, ch. 205, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 75-32-10.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 94 C.J.S. Waters § 336.