Tribal / Pueblo Sovereign Jurisdiction Carve-Out (NM)
Tracked preemption from the New Mexico overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1848-02-02
Sunset
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Authority
federal
Scope
state:NM
Other New Mexico preemptions
WIPP (Carlsbad) Federal Radioactive Waste CorridorNMSA 3-21A — Manufactured Home Siting Non-DiscriminationMilitary AICUZ / Federal Installation Overlays (Kirtland AFB, Holloman AFB, WSMR, Cannon AFB)N.M. Const. Art. X § 6 — Constitutional Municipal Home Rule (Charter Cities)NMSA 3-21 — Municipal/County Zoning Enabling Act (Dillon's Rule Baseline)NMSA 3-21-2 / 3-21-6 — Extraterritorial Joint Zoning Authority (EZA/ELUC, SFEZO)Los Alamos County / LANL Federal–County Hybrid GovernanceFederal-Land Jurisdiction Carve-Out (BLM / USFS / NPS / State Trust Lands)
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
parcel.tribal_land_status == tribal_or_puebloPreempted fields
2 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
municipal_zoning_applicability | override | not_applicable | Parcels within Pueblo land grants, Navajo Nation NM-side allotments, or Apache (Jicarilla, Mescalero) reservations are outside municipal/county zoning entirely — sovereign tribal jurisdiction governs |
state_preemptions_applicable | override | [] | Do not apply state preemption flags to parcels inside tribal/pueblo lands |
Citation
Authority source
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); Indian Reorganization Act (1934, 25 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq.); federal Indian-law sovereignty doctrine
§ Federal Indian-law sovereignty (general); pueblo confirmations under Pueblo Lands Act of 1924
Research notes
NM contains 19 federally-recognized Pueblos (Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Pojoaque, Sandia, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo / Kewa, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni) plus the NM portion of the Navajo Nation and the Jicarilla and Mescalero Apache reservations. This is not a state preemption in the conventional sense — it is a federal-sovereignty carve-out — but it must be modeled in every NM city profile because municipal annexation, zoning, and platting authority simply do not extend into these lands. Checkerboard-allotment parcels (especially in the Navajo NM portion) require parcel-by-parcel jurisdictional determination.