0001| SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR | 0002| SENATE BILL 728 | 0003| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997 | 0004| | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| | 0011| AN ACT | 0012| RELATING TO JUDICIAL DISTRICTS; CREATING THE FOURTEENTH | 0013| JUDICIAL DISTRICT; MODIFYING THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT; | 0014| PROVIDING FOR TRANSFER OF JUDGES, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, | 0015| PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, CONTRACTS AND OBLIGATIONS. | 0016| | 0017| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0018| Section 1. Section 34-6-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1941, | 0019| Chapter 75, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read: | 0020| "34-6-1. JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.--Effective January 1, 2002, | 0021| the state shall be divided into judicial districts as follows: | 0022| A. first judicial district, the counties of Santa | 0023| Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos; | 0024| B. second judicial district, the county of | 0025| Bernalillo; | 0001| C. third judicial district, the county of Dona Ana; | 0002| D. fourth judicial district, the counties of | 0003| Guadalupe, San Miguel and Mora; | 0004| E. fifth judicial district, the counties of Eddy, | 0005| Chaves and Lea; | 0006| F. sixth judicial district, the counties of Grant, | 0007| Luna and Hidalgo; | 0008| G. seventh judicial district, the counties of | 0009| Socorro, Torrance, Sierra and Catron; | 0010| H. eighth judicial district, the counties of Taos, | 0011| Colfax and Union; | 0012| I. ninth judicial district, the counties of Curry | 0013| and Roosevelt; | 0014| J. tenth judicial district, the counties of Quay, | 0015| DeBaca and Harding; | 0016| K. eleventh judicial district, the [counties of | 0017| McKinley and San Juan] county of McKinley; | 0018| L. twelfth judicial district, the counties of Otero | 0019| and Lincoln; [and] | 0020| M. thirteenth judicial district, the counties of | 0021| Cibola, Sandoval and Valencia; and | 0022| N. fourteenth judicial district, the county of San | 0023| Juan." | 0024| Section 2. Section 34-6-14 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968, | 0025| Chapter 69, Section 17, as amended by Laws 1995, Chapter 178, | 0001| Section 3 and also by Laws 1995, Chapter 179, Section 1) is | 0002| amended to read: | 0003| "34-6-14. JUDGES--ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.--Effective | 0004| January 1, 2002, there shall be [six] two district judges in the | 0005| eleventh judicial district. [The judges of divisions one, three, | 0006| four and six shall reside and maintain their principal offices in | 0007| San Juan county. The judges of divisions two and five shall | 0008| reside and maintain their principal offices in McKinley county.]" | 0009| Section 3. A new Section 34-6-16.1 NMSA 1978 is enacted to | 0010| read: | 0011| "34-6-16.1. [NEW MATERIAL] JUDGES--FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL | 0012| DISTRICT.--Effective January 1, 2002, there shall be four judges | 0013| in the fourteenth judicial district." | 0014| Section 4. TEMPORARY PROVISION--TRANSFER OF JUDGES, | 0015| DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, CONTRACTS AND | 0016| OBLIGATIONS.--Effective January 1, 2002: | 0017| A. judges serving in eleventh judicial district | 0018| divisions one, three, four and six who reside in San Juan county | 0019| are transferred to divisions one, two, three and four | 0020| respectively, of the fourteenth judicial district, together with | 0021| all budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations, accounts, | 0022| furniture, equipment, office supplies and other things of value | 0023| and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other obligations | 0024| attributable to those divisions; | 0025| B. the district attorney serving in eleventh judicial | 0001| district division one, composed of San Juan county, is transferred | 0002| to the fourteenth judicial district and shall retain all budgets, | 0003| personnel, money, funds, appropriations, accounts, furniture, | 0004| equipment, office supplies and other things of value and all | 0005| contracts, debts, liabilities or other obligations attributable to | 0006| division one; and | 0007| C. the district attorney serving in eleventh judicial | 0008| district division two, composed of McKinley county, shall become | 0009| the sole district attorney for the eleventh judicial district and | 0010| shall retain all budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations, | 0011| accounts, furniture, equipment, office supplies and other things | 0012| of value and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other | 0013| obligations attributable to division two. | 0014| Section 5. TEMPORARY PROVISION--JUDICIAL ELECTIONS.-- | 0015| A. Candidates running for the position of | 0016| district judge from divisions one, three, four and six of the | 0017| eleventh judicial district shall reside in and be elected by the | 0018| qualified electors of San Juan county at the general election held | 0019| in 2001. | 0020| B. Candidates running for the position of district | 0021| judge from divisions two and five of the eleventh judicial | 0022| district shall reside in and be elected by the qualified electors | 0023| of McKinley county at the general election held in 2001. | 0024| Section 6. REPEAL.--Effective January 1, 2002, Sections | 0025| 36-1-8.2 and 36-1-8.3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981, Chapter 25, | 0001| Sections 1 and 2, as amended) are repealed. | 0002|  |