HOUSE BILL 273

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2012

INTRODUCED BY

Rodolpho “Rudy” S. Martinez

AN ACT

RELATING TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS; EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF THE CONVENTION CENTER FINANCING ACT TO CIVIC CENTERS AND TO ALL MUNICIPALITIES.

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

     SECTION 1. Section 5-13-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003, Chapter 87, Section 2) is amended to read:

     "5-13-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Convention Center Financing Act:

          [A. "additional municipality" means an incorporated municipality, not a qualified municipality, that is authorized to impose convention center fees pursuant to the Convention Center Financing Act;]

          A. "convention center" includes a civic center or similar facility intended for public use;

          B. "convention center fee" means the fee imposed by a local [government] governmental entity pursuant to the Convention Center Financing Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities;

          C. "local governmental entity" means a qualified municipality or a county [or an additional municipality] authorized by the Convention Center Financing Act to impose convention center fees;

          D. "lodging facility" means a hotel, motel or motor hotel, a bed and breakfast facility, an inn, a resort or other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration;

          E. "qualified municipality" means an incorporated municipality [that has a population of more than seventy thousand but less than one hundred thousand according to the 2000 federal decennial census located in a class A county] or an H class county;

          F. "room" means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room;

          G. "vendee" means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and

          H. "vendor" means a person or [his] the person's agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration."

     SECTION 2. Section 5-13-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003, Chapter 87, Section 3) is amended to read:

     "5-13-3. AUTHORIZED LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES.--

          A. The following local governmental entities are authorized to impose convention center fees:

                [A.] (1) a qualified municipality if the governing body of the qualified municipality has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee; and

                [B.] (2) a county in which a qualified municipality is located, provided that:

                     [(1)] (a) a qualified municipality within the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;

                     [(2)] (b) the board of county commissioners of the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;

                     [(3)] (c) the qualified municipality and the county have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act to collect the revenue from the convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required in the Convention Center Financing Act; and

                     [(4)] (d) the fee shall only apply to lodging facilities located within twenty miles of the corporate limits of the qualified municipality. [and

          C. an additional municipality located within twenty miles of the corporate limits of a qualified municipality in the same county in which that qualified municipality is located, provided that:

                (1) the qualified municipality has enacted an ordinance imposing a convention center fee;

                (2) the additional municipality has enacted an ordinance imposing a convention center fee; and

                (3) the qualified municipality and the additional municipality have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act to collect the revenue from the convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required by the Convention Center Financing Act.]

          B. Two qualified municipalities may enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act to collect revenue from a convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required by the Convention Center Financing Act if the municipalities:

                (1) are located in the same county within twenty miles of the corporate limits of each other; and

                (2) have each enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee."

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