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

RELATING TO COUNTIES; ALLOWING A BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO PROVIDE A SALARY INCREASE FOR ELECTED COUNTY OFFICIALS.

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

Section 1. Section 4-44-12.3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1991, Chapter 91, Section 1) is amended to read:

"4-44-12.3. LEGISLATIVE INTENT--UNIFORM SALARY CHANGES.--

A. The intent of the legislature when enacting salary increases for elected county officials is to provide for equitable salary increases.

B. In accordance with Sections 4-44-3 through 4-44-8 NMSA 1978, the majority of a board of county commissioners may provide for salary increases for elected county officials [provided, however, that no salary increase shall take effect until the first day of the term of the first elected county official who takes office after the date that salary increase is approved, at which time the salary increase shall take effect for all county elected officials]."

Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The provisions of this act shall become effective upon certification by the secretary of state that the constitution of New Mexico has been amended as proposed by a joint resolution of the first session of the forty-fourth legislature entitled "A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 10, SECTION 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF NEW MEXICO TO ALLOW FOR MIDTERM SALARY INCREASES FOR COUNTY OFFICERS.".