2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 22 - Public Schools
Article 28 - School Bus Advertisements
Section 22-28-5 - Distribution.

A. Funds raised from commercial advertisement shall be distributed from the school bus advertising fund after the required payment is made to school bus private owners.

B. Sixty percent of the proceeds raised shall be distributed to each school district to use in accordance with the school district's technology plan in amounts proportionate to the amount that each school district contributed to the school bus advertising fund.

C. Forty percent of the proceeds raised shall be distributed on a per membership basis of middle and junior high schools by the state superintendent [secretary] to school districts for extracurricular activities. If a school district does not expend money from the school bus advertising fund for extracurricular activities, it shall revert back to the fund.

D. School districts shall report to the department of education [public education department] on how the funds were used in the technology plans and for extracurricular activities.

History: Laws 1997, ch. 233, § 7.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Laws 2004, ch. 25, § 27, provided that all references to the superintendent of public instruction shall be deemed references to the secretary of public education and all references to the former state board of education or state department of education shall be deemed references to the public education department. See 9-24-15 NMSA 1978.