45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001
RELATING TO ELECTIONS; LIMITING THE SCOPE OF THE MAIL BALLOT ELECTION ACT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. Section 1-23-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1987, Chapter 160, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
"1-23-3. ELECTION BY ALL-MAILED BALLOTS.--[Notwithstanding any other provision of law and regardless of
the number of eligible voters within its boundaries] Except
for class A counties and cities with a population of more than
fifty thousand, a local government may, by resolution of its
governing body, conduct by all-mailed ballot any bond
election, any election on the imposition of a mill levy or a
property tax rate for a specified purpose or any special
election at which no candidates are to be nominated for or
elected to office."