SENATE BILL 290

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Linda M. Trujillo

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO MARRIAGE LICENSING FEES; RAISING MARRIAGE LICENSING FEES; ADJUSTING THE DISPOSITION OF FEES.

 

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

     SECTION 1. Section 40-1-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1957, Chapter 33, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

     "40-1-11. FEES--DISPOSITION.--

          A. The county clerk shall receive a fee of [twenty-five dollars ($25.00)] fifty dollars ($50.00) for issuing, acknowledging and recording a marriage license and marriage certificate.

          B. Fees collected pursuant to Subsection A of this section shall be deposited in the county clerk recording and filing fund; provided that the county treasurer shall remit the fees collected within fifteen days of the last day of each month as follows:

                (1) fifteen dollars ($15.00) of each fee shall be remitted [by the county treasurer to the state treasurer, within fifteen days of the last day of each month, for credit to the children's trust] to the county general fund;

                (2) fifteen dollars ($15.00) of each fee shall be remitted to the state treasurer for credit to the children's trust fund; and

                (3) twenty dollars ($20.00) of each fee shall be retained by the county clerk."

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