0001|                            HOUSE BILL 258
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                          WILLIAM E. PORTER
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0006|                                   
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0007|                               FOR THE
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0008|     SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY AND DEFENSE CONVERSION COMMITTEE 
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0009|     
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO MUNICIPALITIES; AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES TO
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0012|     REGULATE LIGHT POLLUTION THAT INTERFERES WITH ASTRONOMICAL
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0013|     OBSERVATORIES IN THE STATE; ENACTING A SECTION OF THE NMSA
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0014|     1978.
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0015|     
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  A new section of the Municipal Code is enacted
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0018|     to read:
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0019|          "[<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>]  REGULATION OF LIGHT POLLUTION.--A
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0020|     municipality may, by ordinance, regulate light pollution that
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0021|     interferes with the operation of astronomical observatories in
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0022|     the state."
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0023|     .113382.1
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