0001|                            HOUSE BILL 743
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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|                             EDDIE CORLEY
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS IN THE PUEBLO OF ZUNI
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0013|     IN MCKINLEY COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0014|     EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSES FOR WHICH
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0018|     ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0019|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0020|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0021|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand
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0022|     dollars ($300,000) when the New Mexico office of Indian affairs
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0023|     certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The state
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0024|     board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of the
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0025|     bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible
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0001|     upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed
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0002|     sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can
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0003|     proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The state board
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0004|     of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary
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0005|     to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
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0006|     The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0007|     New Mexico office of Indian affairs in the following amounts
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0008|     for the following purposes:
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0009|                    (1)  two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to
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0010|     construct a facility for the pueblo of Zuni emergency medical
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0011|     services program, which currently serves nearly ten thousand
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0012|     residents; and
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0013|                    (2)  one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to
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0014|     plan, design or construct a head start facility for the pueblo
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0015|     of Zuni's growing population.
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0016|               B.  If the New Mexico office of Indian affairs has
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0017|     not certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end
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0018|     of fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0019|     shall be void.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0020|     remaining from the proceeds of severance tax bonds issued
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0021|     pursuant to Subsection A of this section at the end of fiscal
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0022|     year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0023|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0024|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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