2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 11 - Intergovernmental Agreements and Authorities
Article 3A - Regional Housing Law
Section 11-3A-24 - Cooperation in undertaking housing projects and affordable housing programs.

For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects and affordable housing programs located within the area in which it is authorized to act, a local public body may, upon such terms as it may determine, with or without consideration:

A. dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges to a regional housing authority;

B. cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works that it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects and affordable housing programs;

C. furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places that it is otherwise empowered to undertake;

D. cause services to be furnished for housing projects and affordable housing programs of the character that the local public body is otherwise empowered to furnish;

E. enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by the local public body of its powers relating to the repair, elimination or closing of unsafe, unsanitary or unfit dwellings;

F. do any things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects or affordable housing programs;

G. incur the entire expense of any public improvements made by the local public body in exercising the powers granted in the Regional Housing Law; and

H. enter into agreements, which may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary, with a regional authority respecting action to be taken by the local public body pursuant to any of the powers granted by the Regional Housing Law. Any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding, any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a local public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding.

History: Laws 1994, ch. 132, § 24; 1995, ch. 191, § 22; 2009, ch. 48, § 17.

Compiler's notes. — Laws 1995, ch. 191, § 25, effective June 16, 1995, repealed Laws 1994, ch. 132, § 30, which provided for the repeal of this section on July 1, 1995.

The 2009 amendment, effective March 31, 2009, added "regional housing authority" and "affordable housing programs".

The 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, made minor stylistic changes throughout the section.