2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 73 - Special Districts
Article 14 - Conservancy Districts; Definitions; Organization and Management
Section 73-14-71 - Definition of "qualified elector"; qualified elector list. (Effective July 1, 2022.)
A. As used in the provisions of Sections 73-14-70 through 73-14-88 NMSA 1978, "qualified elector" means a natural person who has reached the age of majority and who, for at least six months prior to the election, has owned, either in community or separately, real property located within the district and subject to conservancy district appraisals, assessments, levies and taxes.
B. The conservancy district shall compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the appropriate county clerk no later than one hundred eighty days before an election, and update the list every thirty days until ninety days before the election, which list the county clerk shall use for that election.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-28-50, enacted by Laws 1961, ch. 67, § 3; 1973, ch. 138, § 34; 2018, ch. 79, § 149.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, required the conservancy district to compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the county clerk for use in conservancy district elections; in the section heading, added "qualified elector list"; added subsection designation "A."; and added Subsection B.
