HOUSE BILL 43

44th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2000

INTRODUCED BY

E.G. Smokey Blanton

FOR THE NEW MEXICO FINANCE AUTHORITY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

AN ACT

RELATING TO COURTS; PROVIDING FOR A CIRCUIT COURT AT THE SANTA TERESA PORT OF ENTRY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 35-1-10 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968, Chapter 62, Section 12, as amended) is amended to read:

"35-1-10. MAGISTRATE COURT--DONA ANA DISTRICT.--There shall be four magistrates in Dona Ana magistrate district. Divisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 shall operate as a single court in Las Cruces and shall rotate riding circuit to Anthony, [~~and~~] Hatch and the Santa Teresa port of entry on a regularly scheduled basis."

Section 2. APPROPRIATION.--Forty-two thousand dollars ($42,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the administrative office of the courts for expenditure in fiscal year 2001 to pay costs associated with establishing a circuit court at the Santa Teresa port of entry. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall revert to the general fund.

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