2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 1 - Elections
Article 9 - Voting Machines
Section 1-9-18 - Electronic voting systems; method of payment by counties.
A. The department of finance and administration and the board of county commissioners shall budget annually for as many years as may be necessary from county funds in each county acquiring electronic voting systems and support equipment an amount sufficient to enable the county to pay to the state board of finance installment payments required to be paid under the terms of the lease-purchase contract.
B. The board of county commissioners of each county having a lease-purchase contract with the state board of finance shall pay such payments, at the times and in the amounts as provided by the terms of the lease-purchase contract. The state board of finance shall deposit the payments into the severance tax bonding fund if the electronic voting systems and support equipment were originally purchased with severance tax bond proceeds. The state board of finance shall deposit the payments into the electronic voting system revolving fund if the electronic voting systems were originally purchased with money from the electronic voting system revolving fund.
History: 1978 Comp., § 1-9-18, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 207, § 17; 2001, ch. 233, § 13.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the electronic voting machine revolving fund, see 1-9-19 NMSA 1978.
For the severance tax bond fund, see 7-27-2 NMSA 1978.
The 2001 amendment, effective June 15, 2001, substituted "systems" for "machines" and "system" for "machine" throughout the section.
