HOUSE BILL 122

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Cynthia Borrego

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO MUNICIPALITIES; EXPANDING THE COUNTIES IN WHICH A MUNICIPALITY IS SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATION ON ANNEXATION.

 

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

     SECTION 1. Section 3-7-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1965, Chapter 300, Section 14-7-3, as amended) is amended to read:

     "3-7-3. LIMITATION ON ANNEXATION.--No municipality may annex territory within the boundary of another municipality or territory within a class A county [with a population of more than three hundred thousand persons] unless approved by the board of county commissioners [for] of that county."

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