0001|                            HOUSE BILL 31
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SPECIAL SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          Delores C. Wright
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO JUDGES; PROVIDING FOR TWO ADDITIONAL MAGISTRATE
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0012|     JUDGES IN DONA ANA MAGISTRATE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR
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0013|     APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978;
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0014|     MAKING AN 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.  Section 35-1-10 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
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0018|     Chapter 62, Section 12, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "35-1-10.  MAGISTRATE COURT--DONA ANA DISTRICT.--There
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0020|     shall be <s>[three]</s> <u>five</u> magistrates in Dona Ana magistrate
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0021|     district <u>with</u> divisions 1, 2 and 3 operating as a single
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0022|     court in Las Cruces.  The magistrates <u>in divisions 1, 2 and
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<u></u>0023| <u>    3</u> shall rotate riding circuit to <s>[Anthony and]</s> Hatch on a
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0024|     regularly scheduled basis.  <u>The magistrates in divisions 4
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<u></u>0025| <u>    and 5 shall operate as a single court in Anthony.</u>"
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0002|          Section 2.  TEMPORARY PROVISION--APPOINTMENT--DIVISIONS 4
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0003|     AND 5--ELECTION.--
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0004|               A.  The office of magistrate in Dona Ana magistrate
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0005|     divisions 4 and 5 shall be filled by appointment by the
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0006|     governor.  The appointed magistrates shall begin serving July
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0007|     1, 1998 and shall serve until succeeded by magistrates elected
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0008|     pursuant to Subsection B of this section.
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0009|               B.  The first full term of the office of magistrate
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0010|     in Dona Ana magistrate divisions 4 and 5 shall be filled by
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0011|     election at the general election in 1998, and those terms of
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0012|     office shall begin on January 1, 1999.
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0013|          Section 3.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand
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0014|     dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
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0015|     the Dona Ana magistrate district for expenditure in fiscal
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0016|     year 1999 to pay salaries and benefits of the Dona Ana
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0017|     magistrate district divisions 4 and 5 and to pay the costs of
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0018|     rent, furnishings, supplies and equipment to establish the new
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0019|     divisions.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
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0020|     at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general
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0021|     fund.
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0022|          Section 4.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0023|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0024|     immediately.
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