45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

RELATING TO ELECTIONS; LIMITING THE SCOPE OF THE MAIL BALLOT ELECTION ACT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 1-23-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1987, Chapter 160, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:

"1-23-3. ELECTION BY ALL-MAILED BALLOTS.--[Notwithstanding any other provision of law and regardless of the number of eligible voters within its boundaries] Except for class A counties and cities with a population of more than fifty thousand, a local government may, by resolution of its governing body, conduct by all-mailed ballot any bond election, any election on the imposition of a mill levy or a property tax rate for a specified purpose or any special election at which no candidates are to be nominated for or elected to office."