New Mexico Code § 47-7-17

Removal from provisions of the Building Unit Ownership Act
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A. All unit owners may remove a property from the provisions of the Building Unit Ownership Act by an instrument to that effect, duly recorded; provided that the holders of liens affecting any unit shall consent or agree by instrument duly recorded, provided that their liens be transferred to the percentage of the undivided interest of the debtor unit owner in the property as hereinbefore provided.
B. Upon removal of the property from the provisions of the Building Unit Ownership Act, the property shall be deemed to be owned in common by the unit owners. The undivided interest in the property owned in common which shall appertain to each unit owner shall be the percentage of undivided interest previously owned by an owner in the common areas and facilities.
History: 1953 Comp., § 70-4-16, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 221, § 16; 1975, ch. 318, § 17.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 15A Am. Jur. 2d Condominiums and Cooperative Apartments § 52.

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