45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

RELATING TO JUDICIAL SALARIES; INCREASING SALARIES FOR METROPOLITAN COURT JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978; MAKING APPROPRIATIONS.

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

Section 1. Section 34-1-9 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1993, Chapter 278, Section 1) is amended to read:

"34-1-9. SALARIES OF JUSTICES, JUDGES AND MAGISTRATES.--

A. Justices of the supreme court shall each receive an annual salary of seventy-seven thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($77,250). The chief justice of the supreme court shall receive an annual salary that is two thousand dollars ($2,000) more than the annual salary of a justice of the supreme court.

B. The chief judge of the court of appeals shall receive an annual salary that is ninety-five percent of the annual salary of the chief justice of the supreme court.

C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other provision of this section, the annual salaries of the following judges and magistrates shall be established as follows:

(1) a judge of the court of appeals shall receive an annual salary that is ninety-five percent of the annual salary of a justice of the supreme court;

(2) a district court judge shall receive an annual salary that is ninety-five percent of the annual salary of a judge of the court of appeals;

(3) a metropolitan court judge shall receive an annual salary that is [ninety] ninety-five percent of the annual salary of a district court judge;

(4) a full-time magistrate shall receive an annual salary that is [seventy-five] ninety-five percent of the annual salary of a metropolitan court judge;

(5) a half-time magistrate shall receive an annual salary that is fifty percent of the annual salary of a full-time magistrate; and

(6) a quarter-time magistrate shall receive an annual salary that is twenty-five percent of the annual salary of a full-time magistrate.

D. For the eighty-third fiscal year and all subsequent fiscal years, the annual salary for justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals, district court judges, metropolitan court judges and magistrates shall be established by the legislature in an appropriations act.

E. No additional salaries shall be paid to justices, judges or magistrates on account of services rendered the state. Justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals, district court judges, metropolitan court judges and magistrates shall receive per diem and mileage for necessary travel on official business of the court as provided in the Per Diem and Mileage Act."

Section 2. APPROPRIATIONS.--

A. Eighty-one thousand three hundred dollars ($81,300) is appropriated from the general fund to the Bernalillo county metropolitan court for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 to provide salary increases and benefits for metropolitan court judges pursuant to the provisions of Section 34-1-9 NMSA 1978.

B. One million four hundred ten thousand three hundred dollars ($1,410,300) is appropriated from the general fund to the administrative office of the courts for expenditure in fiscal year 2002 to provide salary increases and benefits for magistrates pursuant to the provisions of Section 34-1-9 NMSA 1978.

C. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining from the appropriations in this section at the end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert to the general fund.

Section 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2001.