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2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Section 17 Referendum Petitions
Section 1-17-1 Referendum petitions; who may sign.

NM Stat § 1-17-1 (2015) What's This?

1-17-1. Referendum petitions; who may sign.

Any person who is a qualified elector of New Mexico and who disapproves any law not excepted by the constitution of New Mexico may sign a referendum petition in his own proper handwriting, and not otherwise, to order a referendum vote upon a law enacted at the last preceding session of the legislature.

History: 1953 Comp., 3-17-1, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 240, 386.

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