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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Youngberg

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/22/07

HB 1273

SHORT TITLE ADD PURPOSES TO EMINENT DOMAIN POWER SB

ANALYST Propst

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 1273 amends the powers of local governments to condemn property, restricting their

powers for lands obsolete or improperly platted to property platted prior to 1975 and has

remained vacant and unimproved.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

DFA notes that HB 1273 amends the powers of local governments to condemn property,

restricting their powers for obsolete or improperly platted lands to property platted prior to 1975

which has remained vacant and unimproved. Other changes are clean up language.

This bill addresses the future expansion of Rio Rancho, which has thousands of lots on thousands

of acres that meet the bill's description. Rio Rancho is also the only local government in New

Mexico to recently invoke the use of eminent domain, or condemnation, and it was precisely to

develop lands that had been platted prior to 1975 and remained vacant and undeveloped.

However, while the bill may give assistance to Rio Rancho, it prohibits any other local

government wishing to exercise condemnation of lands improperly platted after 1975 or has been

partially developed.

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