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2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 3 - Municipalities
Article 60A - Metropolitan Redevelopment
Section 3-60A-8 - Designation of a metropolitan redevelopment area.

Universal Citation: NM Stat § 3-60A-8 (2020)
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A. A local government shall not prepare a metropolitan redevelopment plan for an area unless the local government has, by resolution, determined the area to be a slum area or a blighted area or a combination thereof and designated the area as appropriate for a metropolitan redevelopment project, which resolution may be adopted only after the local government has caused to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the area of operation of the local government a notice that contains a general description of the area and the date, time and place where the local government shall hold a public hearing to consider the resolution and a notice that any interested party may appear and speak to the issue of the adoption of the resolution.

B. Notice shall be published at least twice, and the last publication shall be not less than twenty days before the hearing. The owner of any real property affected by the resolution has the right to file in the district court of the county within which the local government is located, within twenty days after the adoption of the resolution, an action to set aside the determination made by the local government.

C. A local government shall not acquire real property for a metropolitan redevelopment project unless the local government has approved a metropolitan redevelopment plan relating to the metropolitan redevelopment area in which the real property is located.

History: Laws 1979, ch. 391, § 8; 2018, ch. 60, § 7.

ANNOTATIONS

Cross references. — For definitions of "slum area" and "blighted area", see 3-60A-4 NMSA 1978.

For adoption of resolution, see 3-60A-7 NMSA 1978.

The 2018 amendment, effective May 16, 2018, extended the powers and duties as identified in the Metropolitan Redevelopment Code from only municipalities to now include counties, and replaced "municipality" and "governing body" with "local government" throughout the section.

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