0001|                           SENATE BILL 375
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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|                          ARTHUR H. RODARTE
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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 FOR THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND INSPECTION
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0013|     OF A WASTEWATER FACILITY IN THE COMMUNITY OF ABIQUIU LOCATED IN
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0014|     RIO ARRIBA COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0015|     EMERGENCY.
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0016|     
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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 thousand dollars ($200,000) when the department of
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0023|     environment certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. 
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0024|     The state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale
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0025|     of the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0001|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0002|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0003|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0004|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0005|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0006|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0007|     appropriated to the department of environment for the purpose
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0008|     of designing, constructing and inspecting the Abiquiu mutual
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0009|     domestic water and sewer association wastewater facility in the
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0010|     community of Abiquiu located in Rio Arriba county.  Any
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0011|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0012|     fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding
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0013|     fund.  If the department of environment has not certified the
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0014|     need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year
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0015|     1999, the authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0016|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0017|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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