0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1049
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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|                           DANNY CARPENTER
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO JUDICIAL DISTRICTS; CREATING THE FOURTEENTH
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0012|     JUDICIAL DISTRICT; MODIFYING THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT;
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0013|     PROVIDING FOR TRANSFER OF JUDGES, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS,
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0014|     PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, CONTRACTS AND OBLIGATIONS; MAKING AN
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0015|     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 34-6-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1941,
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0019|     Chapter 75, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
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0020|          "34-6-1.  JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.--The state shall be divided
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0021|     into judicial districts as follows:
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0022|               A.  first judicial district, the counties of Santa
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0023|     Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos;
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0024|               B.  second judicial district, the county of
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0025|     Bernalillo;
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0001|               C.  third judicial district, the county of Dona Ana;
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0002|               D.  fourth judicial district, the counties of
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0003|     Guadalupe, San Miguel and Mora;
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0004|               E.  fifth judicial district, the counties of Eddy,
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0005|     Chaves and Lea;
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0006|               F.  sixth judicial district, the counties of Grant,
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0007|     Luna and Hidalgo;
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0008|               G.  seventh judicial district, the counties of
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0009|     Socorro, Torrance, Sierra and Catron;
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0010|               H.  eighth judicial district, the counties of Taos,
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0011|     Colfax and Union;
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0012|               I.  ninth judicial district, the counties of Curry
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0013|     and Roosevelt;
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0014|               J.  tenth judicial district, the counties of Quay,
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0015|     DeBaca and Harding;
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0016|               K.  eleventh judicial district, the <s>[counties of
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<s></s>0017| <s>    McKinley and San Juan]</s> <u>county of McKinley</u>;
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0018|               L.  twelfth judicial district, the counties of Otero
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0019|     and Lincoln; <s>[and]</s>
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0020|               M.  thirteenth judicial district, the counties of
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0021|     Cibola, Sandoval and Valencia; <u>and</u>
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0022|               <u>N.  fourteenth judicial district, the county of San
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<u></u>0023| <u>    Juan</u>."
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0024|          Section 2.  Section 34-6-14 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
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0025|     Chapter 69, Section 17, as amended by Laws 1995, Chapter 178,
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0001|     Section 3 and also by Laws 1995, Chapter 179, Section 1) is
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0002|     amended to read:
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0003|          "34-6-14.  JUDGES--ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.--There
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0004|     shall be <s>[six]</s> <u>two</u> district judges in the eleventh judicial
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0005|     district. <s>[The judges of divisions one, three, four and six
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<s></s>0006| <s>    shall reside and maintain their principal offices in San Juan
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<s></s>0007| <s>    county.  The judges of divisions two and five shall reside and
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<s></s>0008| <s>    maintain their principal offices in McKinley county.]</s>"
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0009|          Section 3.  A new Section 34-6-16.1 NMSA 1978 is enacted
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0010|     to read:
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0011|          "34-6-16.1.  [<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>]  JUDGES--FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL
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0012|     DISTRICT.--There shall be four judges in the fourteenth
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0013|     judicial district."
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0014|          Section 4.  TEMPORARY PROVISION--TRANSFER OF JUDGES,
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0015|     DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, CONTRACTS AND
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0016|     OBLIGATIONS.--On the effective date of the provisions of this
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0017|     act:
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0018|               A.  judges serving in eleventh judicial district
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0019|     divisions one, three, four and six who reside in San Juan
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0020|     county are transferred to divisions one, two, three and four
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0021|     respectively, of the fourteenth judicial district, together
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0022|     with all budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations,
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0023|     accounts, furniture, equipment, office supplies and other
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0024|     things of value and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other
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0025|     obligations attributable to those divisions;
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0001|               B.  the district attorney serving in eleventh
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0002|     judicial district division one, composed of San Juan county, is
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0003|     transferred to the fourteenth judicial district and shall
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0004|     retain all budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations,
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0005|     accounts, furniture, equipment, office supplies and other
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0006|     things of value and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other
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0007|     obligations attributable to division one; and
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0008|               C.  the district attorney serving in eleventh
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0009|     judicial district division two, composed of McKinley county,
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0010|     shall become the sole district attorney for the eleventh
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0011|     judicial district and shall retain all budgets, personnel,
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0012|     money, funds, appropriations, accounts, furniture, equipment,
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0013|     office supplies and other things of value and all contracts,
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0014|     debts, liabilities or other obligations attributable to
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0015|     division two.
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0016|          Section 5.  APPROPRIATION.--Seventy-five thousand dollars
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0017|     ($75,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0018|     administrative office of the courts for expenditure in fiscal
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0019|     year 1998 to pay for salary, benefits, office supplies,
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0020|     materials and other costs associated with the creation of a
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0021|     fourteenth judicial district.  Any unexpended or unencumbered
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0022|     balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 1998 shall revert
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0023|     to the general fund.
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0024|          Section 6.  REPEAL.--Sections 36-1-8.2 and 36-1-8.3 NMSA
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0025|     1978 (being Laws 1981, Chapter 25, Sections 1 and 2, as
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0001|     amended) are repealed.
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0002|          Section 7.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0003|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1997.
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