2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 21 - State and Private Education Institutions
Article 3 - Certain State Post-Secondary Schools
Section 21-3-1 - [Names of Las Vegas and Silver City schools.]

The state educational institution at Las Vegas, shall be known by the name and title of the New Mexico normal university [New Mexico highlands university]; and the state educational institution at Silver City, shall be known by the name and title of the New Mexico normal school [western New Mexico university].

History: Laws 1893, ch. 19, § 1; C.L. 1897, § 3650; Laws 1899, ch. 18, § 1; Code 1915, § 4974; C.S. 1929, § 120-1901; 1941 Comp., § 55-2101; 1953 Comp., § 73-22-1.

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

N.M. Const., art. XII, § 11, as repealed and reenacted on November 8, 1960, changed the name of the New Mexico normal school to the New Mexico western college, which was again changed by constitutional amendment of November 3, 1964, to western New Mexico university. See 21-3-3 NMSA 1978. That constitutional provision also changed the name of New Mexico normal university to New Mexico highlands university. See 21-3-2 NMSA 1978.

Compiler's notes. — This section bore no history line in the 1915 Code. The compilers appear to have correlated the two acts now cited to the history line to create it.

Cross references. — For New Mexico highlands university, see 21-3-2 NMSA 1978.

For western New Mexico university, see 21-3-3 NMSA 1978.

For eastern New Mexico university, see 21-3-29 NMSA 1978.

For designation as state educational institutions, see N.M. Const., art. XII, § 11.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 14A C.J.S. Colleges and Universities § 9.