0001|                               AN ACT
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0002| RELATING TO ZONING; PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CERTAIN
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0003| MUNICIPAL ZONING ORDINANCES ADOPTED UNDER FORMER LAW.
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0005| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:          Section 1.  A new Section 3-21-4.1 NMSA 1978 is enacted to read:
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0006|      "3-21-4.1.  EXTRATERRITORIAL ZONING ORDINANCES ADOPTED
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0007|                                                               UNDER FORMER LAW.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
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0008|                                                               all zoning ordinances adopted by class A counties pursuant to Section 15-36-26 NMSA
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0009|                                                               1953 (being Laws 1961, Chapter 21, Section 1, as amended) are valid and enforceable as
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0010|                                                               of their effective dates and as they may have been amended from time to time.  Such
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0011|                                                               ordinances may be amended according to their provisions and may be enforced with
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0012|                                                               respect to areas of the county not within the boundaries of a municipality; provided that
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0013|                                                               such ordinances must be in effect as of the effective date of this 1996 act and shall not
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0014|                                                               have been superseded by any municipal ordinance or by any joint ordinance of a county
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0015|                                                               and a municipality adopted pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3-21-2 through 3-21-4
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0016|                                                               NMSA 1978."                                                                    
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