2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 14 - Conservancy Districts; Definitions; Organization and Management
Section 73-14-27 - Election; location of polling places; notice of election; creation of absent voter precinct. (Repealed effective July 1, 2022.)
A. For every conservancy district election, the board of directors shall provide for adequate polling places within the boundaries of the conservancy district. In addition, the board of directors shall provide a polling place at the main office of the conservancy district and may provide such other locations as it deems necessary. The board of directors may also create absentee-early voter and absent voter precincts.
B. Notice of the election shall be published three times in a newspaper of general circulation within each county of the district. Each notice shall state the time, place and purpose of the election and shall be published twenty, ten and five days before the election.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-28-11.10, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 262, § 10; 1991, ch. 136, § 3; 1991, ch. 248, § 3; 1996, ch. 42, § 10; 1999, ch. 168, § 5.
ANNOTATIONSDelayed repeals. — Laws 2018, ch. 79, § 176 repeals 73-14-27 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 2022.
The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, in the first sentence of Subsection A, substituted "adequate polling places" for "a polling place at each physical location" and deleted "at which polling places for the general election are located" following "conservancy district", and substituted "absentee-early voter and absent voter precincts" for "an absent voter precinct" in the last sentence of Subsection A.
The 1996 amendment, effective March 4, 1996, added "Creation of absent voter precinct" in the section heading, and in Subsection A, inserted "conservancy district" preceding "election" in the first sentence and added the last sentence.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted "location of polling" for "selection of voting" in the catchline and rewrote Subsection A, which read "Not less than thirty days prior to an election, the board of directors then in office shall meet and select voting places within the conservancy district. Voting places shall be sufficiently numerous and in locations throughout the district so that qualified electors shall have a reasonable opportunity to vote. The selection of voting places shall be by written resolution and shall be preserved as a permanent record of the board".
