2016 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 8 - Public School Finance
Section 22-8-34 - Federal mineral leasing funds.
22-8-34. Federal mineral leasing funds.
A. Except for an annual appropriation to the instructional material fund and to the bureau of geology and mineral resources of the New Mexico institute of mining and technology, and except as provided in Subsection B of this section, all other money received by the state pursuant to the provisions of the federal Mineral Lands Leasing Act, 30 USCA 181, et seq., shall be distributed to the public school fund.
B. All money received by the state as its share of a prepayment of royalties pursuant to 30 U.S.C. 1726(b) shall be distributed as follows:
(1) a portion of the receipts, estimated by the taxation and revenue department to be equal to the amount that the state would have received as its share of royalties in the same fiscal year if the prepayment had not been made, shall be distributed to the public school fund; and
(2) the remainder shall be distributed to the common school permanent fund.
History: 1953 Comp., 77-6-36, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 16, 90; 1974, ch. 8, 19; 1999, ch. 43, 1; 1999, ch. 253, 1; 2001, ch. 246, 2.
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