0001|                            SENATE BILL 34
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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|                          ARTHUR H. RODARTE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO ELECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 3-12-1.1 NMSA 1978
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0012|     (BEING LAWS 1985, CHAPTER 203, SECTION 1, AS AMENDED) PROVIDING
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0013|     FOR ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF GOVERNING BODIES; DELETING H CLASS
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0014|     COUNTIES.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  Section 3-12-1.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1985,
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0018|     Chapter 203, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "3-12-1.1.  ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF GOVERNING
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0020|     BODIES--REQUIRING RESIDENCY.--Except as provided in Section
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0021|     3-12-2 NMSA 1978, members of governing bodies, excluding
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0022|     mayors, of municipalities having a population in excess of ten
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0023|     thousand shall reside in and be elected from single-member
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0024|     districts.  If any member of the governing body permanently
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0025|     removes his residence from or maintains no residence in the
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0001|     district from which he was elected, he shall be deemed to have
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0002|     resigned.  Once, following every federal decennial census, the
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0003|     governing body of the municipality shall divide the
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0004|     municipality into a number of districts equal to the number of
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0005|     members on the governing body.  Such districts shall be compact
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0006|     and contiguous and composed of populations as nearly equal as
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0007|     practicable; provided that the governing body of <s>[H class
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<s></s>0008| <s>    counties and of]</s> any municipality having a population of ten
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0009|     thousand or less may provide for single-member districts as
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0010|     provided in this section."
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