SENATE BILL 434

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2017

INTRODUCED BY

Bill Tallman

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC FACILITIES; PROHIBITING THE NAMING OF PUBLIC FACILITIES AFTER CERTAIN PUBLIC OFFICIALS.

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

     SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] PUBLIC FACILITIES--NAMING--PROHIBITION--EXCEPTIONS.--

          A. As used in this section:

                (1) "public facility" means a building or other real property under the control of the facilities management division of the general services department; and

                (2) "public officer" means a person elected to public office or any person appointed or employed by the state or a political subdivision of the state.

          B. A public facility shall not be named for a public officer during the period in which that person is a public officer.

          C. A public facility shall not be named for a public officer or other person who has been convicted of a felony. A public facility named for such person shall have that name removed immediately, whether or not another name has been offered or approved for substitution and renaming.

          D. A public facility that has been named for a person who was not a public officer at the time of the naming may continue to bear that name if the person subsequently becomes a public officer.

          E. Except as provided in Subsection C of this section, a public facility named for a public officer prior to the effective date of this section may continue to bear the name of that public officer.

          F. The secretary of general services shall appoint a naming committee to consider names submitted to it for the naming of a public facility. The committee shall submit a list of at least three names for consideration by the secretary and the governor. 

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