0001|                         HOUSE BILL 94
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                       DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0011|                             AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO JUDGES; PROVIDING FOR TWO ADDITIONAL MAGISTRATE
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0013|     JUDGES IN DONA ANA MAGISTRATE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR
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0014|     APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978;
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0015|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|       Section 1.  Section 35-1-10 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
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0019|     Chapter 62, Section 12, as amended) is amended to read:
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0020|       "35-1-10.  MAGISTRATE COURT--DONA ANA DISTRICT.--There
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0021|     shall be <s>[three]</s> <u>five</u> magistrates in Dona Ana magistrate
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0022|     district, <u>with</u> divisions 1, 2 and 3 operating as a single
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0023|     court in Las Cruces.  The magistrates <u>in divisions 1, 2 and 3</u>
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0024|     shall rotate riding circuit to <s>[Anthony and]</s> Hatch on a
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0025|     regularly scheduled basis. <u>The magistrates in divisions 4 and 5
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<u></u>0001| <u>    shall operate as a single court in Anthony</u>."
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0002|       Section 2.  TEMPORARY PROVISION--APPOINTMENT--DIVISIONS 4
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0003|     AND 5--ELECTION.--
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0004|            A.  The office of magistrate in Dona Ana magistrate
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0005|     divisions 4 and 5 shall be filled by appointment by the
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0006|     governor.  The appointed magistrates shall begin serving January
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0007|     1, 1997 and shall serve until succeeded by magistrates elected
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0008|     pursuant to Subsection B of this section.
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0009|            B.  The first full term of the office of magistrate
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0010|     in Dona Ana magistrate divisions 4 and 5 shall be filled by
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0011|     election at the general election in 1998, and those terms of
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0012|     office shall begin on January 1, 1999.
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0013|       Section 3.  APPROPRIATION.--Fifty-eight thousand nine
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0014|     hundred eleven dollars ($58,911) is appropriated from the
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0015|     general fund to the Dona Ana magistrate district for expenditure
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0016|     in fiscal year 1997 for two additional full-time equivalent
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0017|     positions.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at
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0018|     the end of fiscal year 1997 shall revert to the general fund.
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0019|       Section 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0020|     provisions of this act is January 1, 1997.
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