2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Section 8 Municipal Elections
Section 3-8-26 Regular municipal election; publication of resolution; choice of ballots or voting machines.

3-8-26. Regular municipal election; publication of resolution; choice of ballots or voting machines.

A. Not earlier than one hundred twelve days or later than eighty-four days prior to the date of a regular municipal election, the governing body shall adopt an election resolution calling for the regular municipal election. The election resolution shall be published in both English and Spanish and once within fifteen days of adoption and again not less than sixty days prior to the election or more than seventy-five days prior to the election, as provided in Subsection J of Section 3-1-2 NMSA 1978. In addition, the election resolution shall be posted in the office of the municipal clerk within twenty-four hours from the date of adoption until the date of the election. For information purposes and coordination, one copy of the election resolution shall be mailed within fifteen days of adoption to the secretary of state and the county clerk of the county in which the municipality is located.

B. The election resolution shall state the date when the election will be held, the offices to be filled, the questions to be submitted to the voters, the date and time of the closing of the registration books by the county clerk as required by law, the date and time for filing the declaration of candidacy, the location of polling places, the date and time for absentee voting and the consolidation of precincts, if any, notwithstanding any conflicting provisions of Section 1-3-5 NMSA 1978. Any question to be submitted to the voters in addition to the election of municipal officers may be included in the election resolution, but such inclusion shall not substitute for any additional or separate resolution or publication thereof as required by law.

C. In those municipalities allowed by law to use paper ballots, the election resolution shall also state whether paper ballots or voting machines will be used in the election.

History: 1953 Comp., 14-8-4, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1967, ch. 146, 3; 1971, ch. 306, 3; 1977, ch. 29, 1; 1978 Comp., 3-8-4, recompiled as 1978 Comp., 3-8-26 by Laws 1985, ch. 208, 34; 1997, ch. 266, 9; 2001, ch. 197, 3; 2003, ch. 244, 5.