2018 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 5 - Municipalities and Counties
Article 3 - Auditoriums
Section 5-3-7 - Ratification of issuance and sale of bonds by electorate.]

That where any of the federal or state agencies specified in Paragraph 3 of this act purchase bonds from any municipality as defined herein, for the purpose of enabling such municipality to purchase, improve, erect and maintain public auditoriums, whether the said bonds be issued hereunder or under the provisions of any other act, and such federal or state agency requires that the issuance and sale of such bonds shall be thereafter submitted to the people for ratification and approval, the municipality shall have and it hereby is given the power to pledge to such federal or state agency the good faith of the municipality that said municipality will submit to the vote of the people therein at the time and in the manner required by the constitution of New Mexico the ratification and approval of the issuance and sale of such bonds by such municipality.

History: Laws 1935, ch. 51, art. 1, § 7; 1941 Comp., § 6-307; 1953 Comp., § 6-3-7.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Compiler's notes. — "Paragraph 3 of this act" evidently refers to Section 6 of the act, compiled as 5-3-6 NMSA 1978.

Intention to purchase bonds necessary to charge discrimination. — A person who did not suggest that he might become a purchaser of any bond under proposed bond issue could not complain that statute authorizing issuance and sale of revenue bonds to raise funds for building a municipal auditorium was discriminatory. Wiggs v. City of Albuquerque, 1952-NMSC-013, 56 N.M. 214, 242 P.2d 865.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 20 C.J.S. Counties § 221; 64A C.J.S. Municipal Corporations § 1664 et seq.