2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 5 - Local School Boards
Section 22-5-1.1 - Local school board members; elected from districts.

Universal Citation: NM Stat § 22-5-1.1 (2018)
22-5-1.1. Local school board members; elected from districts.

Members of local school boards in districts having a population in excess of sixteen thousand shall reside in and be elected from single-member districts. Once, following every federal decennial census, the local school board shall divide the school district into a number of election districts equal in number to the number of members on the school board. Such election districts shall be contiguous and compact and as equal in population as is practicable; provided that the local school board of any district having a population of sixteen thousand or less may provide for single-member districts as provided in this section.

History: 1978 Comp., § 22-5-1.1, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 202, § 1; 1993, ch. 226, § 10.

ANNOTATIONS

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, deleted "Notwithstanding any other provision of the Public School Code" at the beginning of the first sentence.

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