N.M. Admin. Code § 3.6.5.29

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 23, December 10, 2024

Section 3.6.5.29 - MINERAL PROPERTY - DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS FOR VALUATION PURPOSES

A.MINERAL PROPERTY - MINERAL DEFINED: For purposes of Paragraph (2) of Subsection C of Section 7-36-2 NMSA 1978 and Sections 7-36-22 and 7-36-23 NMSA 1978, a mineral is any lifeless natural substance having sufficient value to be mined, quarried or extracted from the earth, except water, oil and gas.

B.MINERAL PROPERTY - DETERMINATION OF "CLASS ONE NONPRODUCTIVE MINERAL PROPERTY":

(1) If "development expenditures" as defined in Section 616 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or renumbered, are attributable to any land held in private ownership in fee during any of the ten years immediately preceding the tax year for which the property is being valued, the property is presumed to contain minerals in commercially workable quantities of such a character as add present value to the land in addition to its value for other purposes. If such property is not mined to the extent specified in Subsection A of Section 7-36-22 NMSA 1978, it is, unless the presumption is rebutted, to be classified as class one nonproductive mineral property under Subsection B of that section.

(2) If the per acre value determined pursuant to Subsection E of Section 7-36-23 NMSA 1978 for real property contended to be class one nonproductive mineral property is less than ten dollars ($10.00) per acre for the mineral in place, excluding the surface value of the property, the real property does not contain minerals in commercially workable quantities of such a character as add present value to the land in addition to its value for other purposes, is therefore outside the definition of "mineral property" and shall not be valued by the department, unless the property is held or used in connection with "mineral property".

C.MINERAL PROPERTY - CERTAIN LEASEHOLD INTERESTS NOT MINERAL PROPERTY: Leasehold interests in mineral lands held by possessory title under the laws of the United States and leasehold or contract mineral rights in mineral lands, the fee of which is vested in the United States or the state, from which no mineral products are severed are not "mineral property" as that phrase is used in Subsection C of Section 7-36-2 NMSA 1978 and Sections 7-36-22, 7-36-23, 7-36-24 and 7-36-25 NMSA 1978 and are not valued by the department and are not to be placed on the tax schedules of any county.

N.M. Admin. Code § 3.6.5.29

3/23/83, 12/29/94, 8/31/96; 3.6.5.29 NMAC - Rn & A, 3 NMAC 6.5.29, 4/30/01