Santa Fe County Easement Deed Form (New Mexico)

All Santa Fe County specific forms and documents listed below are included in your immediate download package:

Easement Deed Form

Santa Fe County Easement Deed Form

Fill in the blank form formatted to comply with all recording and content requirements.
Included Santa Fe County compliant document last validated/updated 10/25/2024

Easement Deed Guide

Santa Fe County Easement Deed Guide

Line by line guide explaining every blank on the form.
Included Santa Fe County compliant document last validated/updated 8/9/2024

Completed Example of the Easement Deed Document

Santa Fe County Completed Example of the Easement Deed Document

Example of a properly completed form for reference.
Included Santa Fe County compliant document last validated/updated 10/18/2024

Guide to writing an Easement Description

Santa Fe County Guide to writing an Easement Description

A Description of the Easement will be required. This will show how to write an acceptable description for a Right of Way Easement, which gives access, to and from - point A to point B.
Included Santa Fe County compliant document last validated/updated 7/11/2024

When using these Easement Deed forms, the subject real estate must be physically located in Santa Fe County. The executed documents should then be recorded in the following office:

Santa Fe County Clerk

102 Grant Ave, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504

Hours: 8:30 to 4:30 M-F

Phone: (505) 986-6280 & 6289

Local jurisdictions located in Santa Fe County include:

  • Cerrillos
  • Edgewood
  • Glorieta
  • Lamy
  • Santa Cruz
  • Santa Fe
  • Stanley
  • Tesuque

How long does it take to get my forms?

Forms are available immediately after submitting payment.

How do I get my forms, are they emailed?

Immediately after you submit payment, the Santa Fe County forms you order will be available for download directly from your account. You can then download the forms to your computer. If you do not already have an account, one will be created for you as part of the order process, and your login details will be provided to you. If you encounter any issues accessing your forms, please reach out to our support team for assistance. Forms are NOT emailed to you.

What does "validated/updated" mean?

This indicates the most recent date when at least one of the following occurred:

  • Updated: The document was updated or changed to remain compliant.
  • Validated: The document was examined by an attorney or staff, or it was successfully recorded in Santa Fe County using our eRecording service.
Are these forms guaranteed to be recordable in Santa Fe County?

Yes. Our form blanks are guaranteed to meet or exceed all formatting requirements set forth by Santa Fe County including margin requirements, content requirements, font and font size requirements.

Can the Easement Deed forms be re-used?

Yes. You can re-use the forms for your personal use. For example, if you have more than one property in Santa Fe County that you need to transfer you would only need to order our forms once for all of your properties in Santa Fe County.

What are supplemental forms?

Often when a deed is recorded, additional documents are required by New Mexico or Santa Fe County. These could be tax related, informational, or even as simple as a coversheet. Supplemental forms are provided for free with your order where available.

What type of files are the forms?

All of our Santa Fe County Easement Deed forms are PDFs. You will need to have or get Adobe Reader to use our forms. Adobe Reader is free software that most computers already have installed.

Do I need any special software to use these forms?

You will need to have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to use our forms. Adobe Reader is free software that most computers already have installed.

Do I have to enter all of my property information online?

No. The blank forms are downloaded to your computer and you fill them out there, at your convenience.

Can I save the completed form, email it to someone?

Yes, you can save your deed form at any point with your information in it. The forms can also be emailed, blank or complete, as attachments.

Are there any recurring fees involved?

No. Nothing to cancel, no memberships, no recurring fees.

Easements are generally granted for a very specific purpose and can be either appurtenant or in gross. An easement gives one person the right to use another person's property for a specific purpose. In New Mexico, express easements are common, and are created by a deed, contract, or other written instrument. The easement deed should identify the location and dimensions of easement, the duration, the scope, and the parties who may use the easement. In a conveyance of real estate in this state, all easements, privileges, and appurtenances belonging to the granted estate are included in the conveyance, unless the deed states differently (47-1-34).

A land use easement in New Mexico is a holder's non-possessory interest in real property imposing any limitation or affirmative obligation for the purpose of retaining or protecting natural open space values of real property (47-12-2). A land use easement can be created, conveyed, recorded, assigned, released, modified, terminated, or otherwise altered or affected in the same manner as other easements created in this state. A solar right, defined in the New Mexico Annotated Statutes as a right to an unobstructed line-of-sight path from a solar collector to the sun, is considered an easement appurtenant (47-3-8). A statutory form for a declaration of a solar right is offered in 47-3-9 of the New Mexico Annotated Statutes.

Easement deeds should be signed by the grantor or the grantor's lawful agent. A proper acknowledgment is required in order to have the instrument recorded by a county clerk. Any person empowered to take acknowledgments, whether in New Mexico or in another state, pursuant to the Notary Public Act or the Uniform Law on Notarial Acts can acknowledge an easement deed. Notarial acts should be evidenced by a certificate, signed and dated by the official taking such acknowledgment (14-14-7).

An easement deed will be of no effect and will not create any rights or obligations until it is recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county or counties where the property subject to the easement is located (47-12-3). Any person claiming a solar right must record such right and give notice to affected property owners as a necessary condition precedent to enforcing a solar right. An easement for solar rights must also be recorded in the county where the property is located (47-3-9).

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