44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS; PROVIDING THAT HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS BE APPOINTED FROM CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

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

Section 1. Section 67-3-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1967, Chapter 266, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:

"67-3-3. HIGHWAY COMMISSION DISTRICTS--[ONE MEMBER APPOINTED FROM EACH DISTRICT] APPOINTMENT--RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS.--

[A. There are created six highway commission districts as follows:

(1) District No. 1, which shall be composed of the counties of Socorro, Grant, Sierra, Dona Ana, Luna and Hidalgo;

(2) District No. 2, which shall be composed of the counties of Lea, Eddy, Chaves, Roosevelt, Curry, DeBaca, Lincoln and Otero;

(3) District No. 3, which shall be composed of the counties of Bernalillo and Valencia and, in Sandoval county, all of townships twelve and thirteen north, ranges one, two, three, four, five and six east and all of townships fourteen, fifteen and sixteen north, ranges four, five and six east;

(4) District No. 4, which shall be composed of the counties of Colfax, Union, Mora, Harding, San Miguel, Quay and Guadalupe;

(5) District No. 5, which shall be composed of the counties of San Juan, Rio Arriba, Taos, Santa Fe, Torrance and Los Alamos; and

(6) District No. 6, which shall be composed of the counties of Catron, Cibola, McKinley and all of Sandoval county excluding all of townships twelve and thirteen north, ranges one, two, three, four, five and six east and all of townships fourteen, fifteen and sixteen north, ranges four, five and six east.

B. The legislature, in the event of the creation of any new county, shall attach any such county to any of the above districts to which said county may be contiguous.

C. One member] Two members of the state highway commission shall be appointed from each of the [six highway commission] three congressional districts, and [the] each member shall reside in the district from which he is appointed. Change of residence of a highway commissioner to a place outside the [highway] district from which he was appointed shall automatically terminate the term of that commissioner."