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2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Section 1 General Provisions
Section 3-1-3 Municipalities; name; prohibiting the use of name of another municipality.

NM Stat § 3-1-3 (2015) What's This?

3-1-3. Municipalities; name; prohibiting the use of name of another municipality.

Any municipality may be known as the:

A. "city of ............";

B. "town of ............"; or

C. "village of ............"; but no municipality which changes its name or incorporates shall adopt the name of an existing municipality.

History: 1953 Comp., 14-1-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.

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