HOUSE BILL 296

49th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2009

INTRODUCED BY

Andy Nuñez

AN ACT

RELATING TO COURTS; PROVIDING THAT A METROPOLITAN COURT BE ESTABLISHED IN A CLASS A COUNTY WITH A POPULATION OF MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND PERSONS.

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

     Section 1. Section 34-8A-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1979, Chapter 346, Section 1) is amended to read:

     "34-8A-1. METROPOLITAN COURT--ESTABLISHED.--There is established within the boundaries of a class A county with a population of more than [two hundred] three hundred fifty thousand persons in the last federal decennial census the "metropolitan court". The name of the metropolitan district is the same as the name of the county in which it is located."

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