0001| | 0002| HOUSE BILL 213 | 0003| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, | 0004| 1996 | 0005| INTRODUCED BY | 0006| G.X. MCSHERRY | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| | 0011| | 0012| AN ACT | 0013| RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF | 0014| SEVERANCE TAX BONDS TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, IMPROVE OR PURCHASE | 0015| EQUIPMENT FOR A SCHOOL BUS ROUTE SOUTHWEST OF DEMING IN LUNA | 0016| COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. | 0017| | 0018| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0019| Section 1. SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may issue | 0020| and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance | 0021| Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding one hundred | 0022| forty-nine thousand four hundred eighty-seven dollars | 0023| ($149,487) when the state department of public education | 0024| certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds. The state | 0025| board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of the | 0001| bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible | 0002| upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed | 0003| sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can | 0004| proceed to contract within a reasonable time. The state board | 0005| of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary to | 0006| comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The | 0007| proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the | 0008| state department of public education for the purpose of | 0009| designing, constructing, improving or purchasing equipment for a | 0010| school bus route southwest of Deming known as Lucca avenue | 0011| located in Luna county. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance | 0012| remaining at the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the | 0013| severance tax bonding fund. If the state department of public | 0014| education has not certified the need for the issuance of the | 0015| bonds by the end of fiscal year 1998, the authorization provided | 0016| in this section shall be void. | 0017| Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public | 0018| peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately. | 0019|  |