2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 14 - Conservancy Districts; Definitions; Organization and Management
Section 73-14-78 - Notice of candidacy; signatures of electors. (Effective July 1, 2022.)
Any qualified elector who desires to become a candidate for election as a member of a conservancy district board of directors shall file a written notice of candidacy with the proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act [Chapter 1, Article 22 NMSA 1978]. In addition, a notice for candidacy shall be signed by at least ten qualified electors within the conservancy district.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-28-57, enacted by Laws 1961, ch. 67, § 10; 2018, ch. 79, § 152.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, required any qualified elector who desires to become a candidate for election as a member of the conservancy district board of directors to file a notice of candidacy with the proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act; deleted subsection designation "A."; after "written notice of candidacy with the", deleted "secretary of the existing appointed or elected board at least twenty days before the election" and added "proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act"; deleted former Subsection B, which related to the contents of a notice of candidacy; and deleted subsection designation "C.".
