2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Section 14 Commission-Manager Form of Government; Municipalities Over 1,000
Section 3-14-2 Commission-manager; special election for adoption.
3-14-2. Commission-manager; special election for adoption.
A. Upon petition signed by qualified electors, not less in number than fifteen percent of the votes cast for the office of mayor at the last regular municipal election, filed with the municipal clerk and verified by the municipal clerk to contain a sufficient number of legal signatures, the governing body shall within ten days of verification adopt an election resolution calling for the holding of a special election, within ninety days after the verification of the petition, on the question of organizing the municipality under the commission-manager form of government, or the governing body may submit to the qualified electors of the municipality the question of organizing the municipality under the commission-manager form of government.
B. The question to be placed shall read substantially as follows:
"For the commission-manager form of government and providing for the election of five commissioners ________; and
Against the commission-manager form of government and providing for the election of five commissioners ________."
History: 1953 Comp., 14-13-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1985, ch. 208, 110.
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