0001| HOUSE BILL 776
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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| LEO C. WATCHMAN, JR.
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0010| AN ACT
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0011| RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS; DEFINING INDIAN COUNTRY FOR
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0012| PURPOSES OF THE STATUTES; ENACTING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978;
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0013| DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0015| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016| Section 1. A new section of Chapter 12, Article 2 NMSA
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0017| 1978 is enacted to read:
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0018| "[NEW MATERIAL] INDIAN COUNTRY--DEFINITION FOR PURPOSES
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0019| OF THE STATUTES.--When used in the statutes, "Indian country"
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0020| means:
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0021| A. all land within the limits of any reservation of
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0022| an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo under the jurisdiction of the
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0023| United States government, notwithstanding the issuance of any
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0024| patent and including rights of way running through the
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0025| reservation;
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0001| B. all dependent Indian communities within the
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0002| borders of New Mexico whether within the original or
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0003| subsequently acquired territory;
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0004| C. all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to
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0005| which have not been extinguished, including rights of way
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0006| running through the allotments; and
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0007| D. any lands, title to which is either held by the
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0008| United States in trust for the benefit of any Indian nation,
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0009| tribe, pueblo or tribal member or is held by any Indian nation,
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0010| tribe, pueblo or tribal member subject to a restriction by the
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0011| United States against alienation."
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0012| Section 2. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0013| peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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0016| State of New Mexico
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0017| House of Representatives
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0019| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0020| FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0023| February 25, 1997
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0001| Mr. Speaker:
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0003| Your GOVERNMENT AND URBAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to whom
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0004| has been referred
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0006| HOUSE BILL 776
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0008| has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0009| recommendation that it DO PASS, and thence referred to the
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0010| JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
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0012| Respectfully submitted,
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0017| Lynda M. Lovejoy, Chairwoman
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0020| Adopted Not Adopted
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0022| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk)
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0024| Date
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0001| The roll call vote was 4 For 2 Against
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0002| Yes:4
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0003| No:Pearce, Wallace
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0004| Excused:Hobbs, Pederson
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0005| Absent:None
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