0001| HOUSE BILL 370
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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| MURRAY RYAN
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| RELATING TO JUDGES; PROVIDING FOR AN ADDITIONAL MAGISTRATE
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0012| JUDGE IN THE SIERRA MAGISTRATE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR
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0013| APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978;
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0014| MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
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0016| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017| Section 1. Section 35-1-30 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
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0018| Chapter 62, Section 32) is amended to read:
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0019| "35-1-30. MAGISTRATE COURT--SIERRA DISTRICT.--There shall
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0020| be [one magistrate] two magistrates in Sierra magistrate
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0021| district with [a] divisions one and two operating as a
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0022| single court in Truth or Consequences."
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0023| Section 2. TEMPORARY PROVISION--APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION-
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0024| -DIVISION TWO.--
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0025| A. The office of magistrate in the Sierra
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0001| magistrate district division two shall be filled by appointment
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0002| by the governor. The appointed magistrate shall begin serving
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0003| January 1, 1998 and shall serve until succeeded by a magistrate
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0004| elected pursuant to Subsection B of this section.
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0005| B. The first full term of the office of magistrate
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0006| in the Sierra magistrate district division two shall be filled
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0007| by election at the general election in 1998, and that term of
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0008| office shall begin on January 1, 1999.
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0009| Section 3. APPROPRIATION.--Seventy thousand dollars
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0010| ($70,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0011| administrative office of the courts for expenditure in fiscal
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0012| year 1998 for salary, benefits, office space and supplies for
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0013| one new magistrate judge in the Sierra magistrate district
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0014| division two. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
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0015| at the end of fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general
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0016| fund.
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0017| State of New Mexico
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0018| House of Representatives
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0020| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0021| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0024| February 12, 1997
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0002| Mr. Speaker:
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0004| Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0006| HOUSE BILL 370
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0008| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0009| recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0010| APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE.
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0012| Respectfully submitted,
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0018| Thomas P. Foy, Chairman
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0021| Adopted Not Adopted
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0023| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0025| Date
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0002| The roll call vote was 7 For 4 Against
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0003| Yes: 7
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0004| No: Alwin, M.P. Garcia, Mallory, Pederson
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0005| Excused: Rios, Sanchez
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0006| Absent: None
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