SENATE BILL 62

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

Sue Wilson Beffort

AN ACT

RELATING TO ELECTIONS; LIMITING ALL-MAILED BALLOT ELECTIONS TO ELECTIONS THAT DO NOT REORGANIZE A LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

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, 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 that does not reorganize a local government and at which no candidates are to be nominated for or elected to office."