0001|                           SENATE BILL 520
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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|                          PHILLIP J. MALOOF
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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 CERTAIN STREET IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
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0013|     SOUTH VALLEY AREA OF BERNALILLO COUNTY; MAKING AN
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0014|     APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0018|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may
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0019|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0020|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding seventy-
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0021|     five thousand dollars ($75,000) when the state highway and
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0022|     transportation department certifies the need for the issuance
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0023|     of the bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the
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0024|     issuance and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and
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0025|     economical manner possible upon a finding by the board that the
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0001|     project has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance
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0002|     and that the project can proceed to contract within a
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0003|     reasonable time.  The state board of finance shall further take
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0004|     the appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal
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0005|     Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale
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0006|     of the bonds are appropriated to the state highway and
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0007|     transportation department for the purpose of planning,
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0008|     designing, right-of-way purchase, improving and constructing
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0009|     improvements of Mae, Gatewood and Five Points roads in the
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0010|     south valley area located in Bernalillo county.  Any unexpended
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0011|     or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year
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0012|     2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund.  If the
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0013|     state highway and transportation department has not certified
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0014|     the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal
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0015|     year 1999, the authorization provided in this section shall be
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0016|     void.
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0017|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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