45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF THE STATE PENITENTIARY IN SANTA FE FOR MOTION PICTURES.

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

Section 1. STATE PENITENTIARY--LEASE FOR MOTION PICTURES.--The corrections department, the property control division of the general services department and the New Mexico film division of the economic development department shall enter into a joint powers agreement to make the old state penitentiary at Santa Fe available for use by the motion picture industry. The property and structures that fall within the existing security perimeter fence at the old state penitentiary at Santa Fe and any building not used by the corrections department that is within three hundred yards of the outside of the security perimeter fence of the old state penitentiary at Santa Fe shall be made available for lease at reasonable market rates to the motion picture industry for economic development.