0001| SENATE BILL 114 | 0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998 | 0003| INTRODUCED BY | 0004| RAYMOND L. KYSAR | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| AN ACT | 0011| RELATING TO JUDICIAL DISTRICTS; CREATING THE FOURTEENTH | 0012| JUDICIAL DISTRICT; MODIFYING THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT; | 0013| PROVIDING FOR ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGES, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, | 0014| PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, CONTRACTS AND OBLIGATIONS; MAKING | 0015| AN APPROPRIATION. | 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.--The state shall be divided | 0021| 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; | - 1 - 0001| C. third judicial district, the county of Dona | 0002| Ana; | 0003| D. fourth judicial district, the counties of | 0004| Guadalupe, San Miguel and Mora; | 0005| E. fifth judicial district, the counties of Eddy, | 0006| Chaves and Lea; | 0007| F. sixth judicial district, the counties of Grant, | 0008| Luna and Hidalgo; | 0009| G. seventh judicial district, the counties of | 0010| Socorro, Torrance, Sierra and Catron; | 0011| H. eighth judicial district, the counties of Taos, | 0012| Colfax and Union; | 0013| I. ninth judicial district, the counties of Curry | 0014| and Roosevelt; | 0015| J. tenth judicial district, the counties of Quay, | 0016| DeBaca and Harding; | 0017| K. eleventh judicial district, the ~[counties of | 0018| McKinley and San Juan]~ |county of McKinley|; | 0019| L. twelfth judicial district, the counties of | 0020| Otero and Lincoln; ~[and]~ | 0021| M. thirteenth judicial district, the counties of | 0022| Cibola, Sandoval and Valencia; |and | 0023| N. fourteenth judicial district, the county of San | 0024| Juan|." | 0025| Section 2. Section 34-6-14 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968, | - 2 - 0001| Chapter 69, Section 17, as amended by Laws 1995, Chapter 178, | 0002| Section 3 and also by Laws 1995, Chapter 179, Section 1) is | 0003| amended to read: | 0004| "34-6-14. JUDGES--ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.--There | 0005| shall be ~[six]~ |two| district judges in the eleventh | 0006| judicial district. ~[The judges of divisions one, three, four | 0007| and six shall reside and maintain their principal offices in | 0008| San Juan county. The judges of divisions two and five shall | 0009| reside and maintain their principal offices in McKinley | 0010| county]~" | 0011| Section 3. A new Section 34-6-16.1 NMSA 1978 is enacted | 0012| to read: | 0013| "34-6-16.1. [|NEW MATERIAL|] JUDGES--FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL | 0014| DISTRICT.--There shall be four judges in the fourteenth | 0015| judicial district." | 0016| Section 4. TEMPORARY PROVISION--ASSIGNMENT OF JUDGES, | 0017| DISTRICT ATTORNEYS, PERSONNEL, APPROPRIATIONS, CONTRACTS AND | 0018| OBLIGATIONS.--On the effective date of the provisions of this | 0019| act: | 0020| A. judges serving in eleventh judicial district | 0021| divisions one, three, four and six, who reside in San Juan | 0022| county, are transferred to the fourteenth judicial district, | 0023| together with all budgets, personnel, money, funds, | 0024| appropriations, accounts, furniture, equipment, office | 0025| supplies and other things of value and all contracts, debts, | - 3 - 0001| liabilities or other obligations attributable to those | 0002| divisions; | 0003| B. judges serving in eleventh judicial district | 0004| divisions two and five, who reside in McKinley county, shall | 0005| remain in the eleventh judicial district and shall retain all | 0006| budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations, accounts, | 0007| furniture, equipment, office supplies and other things of | 0008| value and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other | 0009| obligations attributable to those divisions; | 0010| C. the district attorney serving in eleventh | 0011| judicial district division one, composed of San Juan county, | 0012| is transferred to the fourteenth judicial district, together | 0013| with all budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations, | 0014| accounts, furniture, equipment, office supplies and other | 0015| things of value and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other | 0016| obligations attributable to that division; and | 0017| D. the district attorney serving in eleventh | 0018| judicial district division two, composed of McKinley county, | 0019| shall remain in the eleventh judicial district and shall | 0020| retain all budgets, personnel, money, funds, appropriations, | 0021| accounts, furniture, equipment, office supplies and other | 0022| things of value and all contracts, debts, liabilities or other | 0023| obligations attributable to that division. | 0024| Section 5. APPROPRIATION.--Ninety thousand dollars | 0025| ($90,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the | - 4 - 0001| administrative office of the courts for expenditure in fiscal | 0002| year 2002 to pay for salaries, benefits, office supplies, | 0003| materials and other costs associated with the creation of a | 0004| fourteenth judicial district. Any unexpended or unencumbered | 0005| balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2002 shall revert | 0006| to the general fund. | 0007| Section 6. REPEAL.--Sections 36-1-8.2 and 36-1-8.3 NMSA | 0008| 1978 (being Laws 1981, Chapter 25, Sections 1 and 2, as | 0009| amended) are repealed. | 0010| Section 7. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the | 0011| provisions of this act is January 1, 2002. | 0012|  | 0013| |