HOUSE BILL 526

51st legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2013

INTRODUCED BY

Yvette Herrell

AN ACT

RELATING TO COUNTIES; PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN NOTICES BY ELECTRONIC MAIL.

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

     SECTION 1. Section 7-38-84 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1973, Chapter 258, Section 124, as amended) is amended to read:

     "7-38-84. NOTICES--MAILING.--

          A. Any notice that is required to be made to a property owner by the Property Tax Code is effective if mailed by regular first class mail to the property owner's last address or to the address of any person other than the owner to whom the tax bill is to be sent as shown by the valuation records unless the provisions of the code require a different method of notification or mailing, in which case the notice is effective if given in accordance with the provisions of [the] that code.

          B. If a property owner notifies, in writing or by electronic mail, the county assessor or the county treasurer that the property owner wants to receive notices pursuant to the Property Tax Code by electronic mail rather than by regular first class mail, the county assessor or the county treasurer may thereafter provide such notices to the property owner utilizing an electronic mail address provided by the property owner. A property owner's request to receive notices by electronic mail shall be effective until revoked in writing or by electronic mail. Wherever the Property Tax Code requires a method of notification or mailing other than by regular first class mail, the notice is effective if given in accordance with the provisions of that code."

     SECTION 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2013.

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