2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 26A - Public School Lease Purchase Act
Section 22-26A-17 - Tax exemption.
The state covenants with the original holder and all subsequent holders and transferees of lease purchase arrangements entered into by governing bodies, in consideration of the acceptance of and payment for the lease purchase arrangements entered into pursuant to the Public School Lease Purchase Act, that lease purchase arrangements, certificates of participation and other partial interests in lease purchase arrangements and the interest income from the lease purchase arrangements, certificates of participation and other partial interests shall at all times be free from taxation by the state, except for estate or gift taxes and taxes on transfers.
History: Laws 2007, ch. 173, § 17; 2009, ch. 132, § 13; 2015, ch. 106, § 9.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, amended the Public School Lease Purchase Act to include charter schools in the state's covenant that lease purchase arrangements will be free from taxation by the state, except for estate or gift taxes and taxes on transfers; after "arrangements entered into by", deleted "local school boards" and added "governing bodies".
