0001|                           SENATE BILL 488
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           JOSEPH A. FIDEL
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS FOR WATER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS IN CIBOLA
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0013|     COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0017|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0018|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0019|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0020|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding eight hundred ninety-
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0021|     eight thousand dollars ($898,000) when the department of
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0022|     environment certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. 
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0023|     The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale
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0024|     of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0025|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0001|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0002|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0003|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0004|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0005|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0006|     appropriated to the department of environment in the following
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0007|     amounts for the following purposes:
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0008|                    (1)  three hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0009|     ($350,000) for repairs, restoration and other improvements to
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0010|     the domestic water system in Bibo located in Cibola county;
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0011|                    (2)  one hundred ninety-eight thousand dollars
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0012|     ($198,000) for repairs, restoration and other improvements to
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0013|     the domestic water system in Moquino located in Cibola county;
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0014|     and
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0015|                    (3)  three hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0016|     ($350,000) for repairs, restoration and other improvements to
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0017|     the domestic water system in Seboyeta located in Cibola county.
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0018|               B.  If the department of environment has not
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0019|     certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of
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0020|     fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0021|     shall be void.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0022|     remaining from the proceeds of severance tax bonds issued
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0023|     pursuant to Subsection A of this section at the end of fiscal
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0024|     year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0025|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0001|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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