SENATE BILL 334

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

Phil A. Griego

AN ACT

RELATING TO THE COURTS; AMENDING A SECTION OF CHAPTER 34 NMSA 1978 TO PROVIDE FOR AT LEAST ONE JUDGE SERVING IN THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT TO RESIDE IN LINCOLN COUNTY.

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

     SECTION 1. Section 34-6-15 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1971, Chapter 52, Section 2, as amended) is amended to read:

     "34-6-15. JUDGES--TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.--There shall be four district judges in the twelfth judicial district. [The judge of division three] At least one of the district judges shall reside in and be designated to maintain [his] the judge's principal office in Lincoln county."

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