2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3: Municipalities
Article 51: Greater Municipality Parking, 3-51-1 through 3-51-46
Section 3-51-5: Powers of city.

3-51-5. Powers of city.

Every city shall have all the powers necessary, convenient, desirable or appropriate to carry out the purposes and provisions of the Greater Municipality Parking Law [3-51-1 to 3-51-45 NMSA 1978] including the following powers in addition to other powers conferred by the Greater Municipality Parking Law:

A. to purchase and install, maintain, regulate, operate and manage parking meters and parking spaces upon the streets of the city;

B. to purchase, acquire, lease, rent, construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, repair, maintain, operate and manage parking facilities for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets together with public rights of way necessary or convenient therefor, including the leasing of the operation thereof, and including the leasing of a portion of the space at any such parking facility to private operators for commercial purposes, when in the judgment of the governing body it is convenient or necessary to permit such leasing in order to utilize the balance of the property as a parking facility;

C. to purchase, acquire by gift, grant, bequest or devise or otherwise, any real or personal property or any interest therein, together with the improvement thereon, to be used as parking facilities or incident thereto;

D. to insure or provide for the insurance of any parking facility established by the city against such risks and hazards as the city may deem advisable;

E. to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property or personal property, or any interest therein which it deems necessary for its purposes under the Greater Municipality Parking Law after the adoption by it of an ordinance declaring that its acquisition is necessary for such purposes. This power shall be exercised in the manner provided by any applicable statutory provisions and laws of the state of New Mexico and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. Title to property so acquired shall be taken in the name of the city;

F. to sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property, or any interest therein acquired for the purpose of the Greater Municipality Parking Law; and

G. to receive, control, invest, order the expenditure of, any and all moneys and funds pertaining to parking facilities and parking meters, or related properties, if the same are not otherwise committed.