0001|                            HOUSE BILL 959
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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|                            G. X. MCSHERRY
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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 TO BUILD PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS AT THE FARM
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0013|     AND RANCH HERITAGE MUSEUM LOCATED IN DONA ANA COUNTY; MAKING AN
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0014|     APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN 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--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0018|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--The state board of finance may
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0019|     issue and sell severance tax bonds in compliance with the
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0020|     Severance Tax Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding eight
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0021|     hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) when the office of cultural
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0022|     affairs certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The
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0023|     state board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of
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0024|     the bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner
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0025|     possible upon a finding by the board that the project has been
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0001|     developed sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the
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0002|     project can proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The
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0003|     state board of finance shall further take the appropriate steps
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0004|     necessary to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
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0005|     amended.  The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are
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0006|     appropriated to the office of cultural affairs for the purpose
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0007|     of building permanent exhibitions at the farm and ranch
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0008|     heritage museum located in Dona Ana county.  Any unexpended or
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0009|     unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2000
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0010|     shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund.  If the office
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0011|     of cultural affairs  has not certified the need for the
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0012|     issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year 1999, the
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0013|     authorization provided in this section shall be void.
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0014|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0015|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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