2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Section 2 Incorporation of Municipality
Section 3-2-8 Incorporation; election of first officers; duties of board of county commissioners and county clerk; selection of terms of first officers.
3-2-8. Incorporation; election of first officers; duties of board of county commissioners and county clerk; selection of terms of first officers.
A. If a majority of the votes cast favor the incorporation of the territory as a municipality, the board of county commissioners shall, within fifteen days after declaring the results of the election, call an election for the purpose of electing municipal officers. Except for the fact that the election need not be held on the date specified in the Municipal Election Code [Chapter 3, Articles 8 and 9 NMSA 1978] for the regular municipal election, the election shall be called and conducted in the manner provided in the Municipal Election Code for regular municipal elections. The board of county commissioners shall perform the duties imposed by the Municipal Election Code upon the governing body of the municipality and the county clerk shall perform the duties imposed by the Municipal Election Code upon the municipal clerk. The county clerk also shall notify the secretary of finance and administration and the secretary of taxation and revenue of the date of the first election of municipal officers within ten days after the county commissioners have called the election.
B. At the first election for municipal officers following a vote in favor of incorporating territory as a municipality, the term of office for the mayor and the municipal judge shall be until the next regular municipal election. The terms of office for one-half of the members of the governing body shall be until the next regular municipal election and for the remaining one-half of the members of the governing body until the second regular municipal election is held. The elected municipal officers shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified. The length of the terms of the first members shall be determined by lot.
History: 1953 Comp., 14-2-7, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1981, ch. 204, 4; 1987, ch. 323, 3.
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