2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Section 2 Incorporation of Municipality
Section 3-2-4 Special provisions for incorporation of municipalities under certain circumstances.
3-2-4. Special provisions for incorporation of municipalities under certain circumstances.
Notwithstanding any provisions of Sections 3-2-3, 3-2-5 and 3-57-9 NMSA 1978 to the contrary, the residents of a contiguous, undivided territory within a class A county may incorporate that territory into a new municipality with boundaries closer than five miles to or coterminous with the boundary of an existing municipality by following all other provisions of the law governing incorporation, if the territory proposed to be incorporated has a population, as shown by the last decennial census, of fifteen thousand or more.
History: 1953 Comp., 14-2-3.1, enacted by Laws 1976, ch. 53, 1.
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