0001|                            HOUSE BILL 914
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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|                          DEBBIE A. RODELLA
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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 THE TRES PIEDRAS COMMUNITY CENTER IN
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0013|     TAOS COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; 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.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0017|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may
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0018|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0019|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding one
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0020|     hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) when the local government
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0021|     division of the department of finance and administration
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0022|     certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The state
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0023|     board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of the
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0024|     bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible
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0025|     upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed
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0001|     sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can
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0002|     proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The state board
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0003|     of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary
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0004|     to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
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0005|     The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0006|     local government division of the department of finance and
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0007|     administration for the purpose of acquiring and improving a
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0008|     site and installing necessary infrastructure for permanent
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0009|     placement of a modular building to be used as the Tres Piedras
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0010|     community center located in Taos county.  Any unexpended or
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0011|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000
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0012|     shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund.  If the local
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0013|     government division of the department of finance and
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0014|     administration has not certified the need for the issuance of
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0015|     the bonds by the end of fiscal year 1999, the authorization
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0016|     provided in this section shall be void.
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0017|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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