0001|                            HOUSE BILL 255
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           NICK L. SALAZAR
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS TO CONTINUE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WOMEN'S
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0013|     UNIT OF THE EIGHT NORTHERN INDIAN PUEBLOS COUNCIL'S NEW MOON
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0014|     LODGE IN RIO ARRIBA COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING
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0015|     AN EMERGENCY.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0019|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may

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0020|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0021|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding two
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0022|     hundred sixty thousand dollars ($260,000) when the New Mexico
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0023|     office of Indian affairs certifies the need for the issuance of
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0024|     the bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the
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0025|     issuance and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and
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0001|     economical manner possible upon a finding by the board that the
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0002|     project has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance
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0003|     and that the project can proceed to contract within a
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0004|     reasonable time.  The state board of finance shall further take
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0005|     the appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal
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0006|     Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale
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0007|     of the bonds are appropriated to the New Mexico office of
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0008|     Indian affairs to continue phase three of the renovation of the
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0009|     New Moon lodge for the eight northern Indian pueblos council by
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0010|     planning, designing or constructing a women's unit of the
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0011|     facility located in Rio Arriba county.  Any unexpended or
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0012|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000
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0013|     shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund.  If the New
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0014|     Mexico office of Indian affairs has not certified the need for
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0015|     the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year 1999, the
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0016|     authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0017|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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