2019 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 6 - Public Finances
Article 12 - State Indebtedness
Section 6-12-2 - Certificates of indebtedness and interest; treasurer may borrow to pay.

Whenever the money in the funds is insufficient to meet the outstanding certificates of indebtedness and interest coupons as they mature, it shall be the duty of the state treasurer to borrow temporarily a sufficient sum to make such payment, and for such purposes the said treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to make and negotiate the necessary loan on the best terms obtainable, at a rate of interest not to exceed six per centum per annum; provided, that any surplus money in the interest on deposits fund and any surplus of any other fund on hand not otherwise appropriated shall be first used to pay said deficit before borrowing money to make such payments. The secretary of finance and administration shall countersign any and all necessary papers for the negotiation of such loan, and charge the proceeds to the treasurer, and the treasurer shall redeem such paper out of the interest fund whenever there shall be money in such fund available.

History: Laws 1913, ch. 83, § 1; Code 1915, § 4581; C.S. 1929, § 109-301; 1941 Comp., § 7-502; 1953 Comp., § 11-5-2; Laws 1977, ch. 247, § 133.

Compiler's notes. — This section was a proviso to § 1 of the 1913 Appropriation Act, and the reference to "the funds" in the first clause evidently referred to the appropriation for payment of interest on the bonded indebtedness and for interest and principal on certificates of indebtedness for 1909 and 1912 which preceded it.

Authority to pay interest on county bonds. — The state treasurer is authorized to pay interest on Grant county bonds, as a part of the state indebtedness under this section. 1913 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 13-1014.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 81A C.J.S. States §§ 213, 214, 261.