0001|                            HOUSE BILL 31
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           NICK L. SALAZAR
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS; CREATING THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
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0012|     FUND; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  DISTRICT ATTORNEY FUND--CREATED--
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0016|     ADMINISTRATION--PURPOSE.--
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0017|               A.  The "district attorney fund" is created in the
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0018|     state treasury.  The fund shall consist of worthless check
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0019|     fees, preprosecution diversion fees, other statutory revenues
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0020|     directed to the fund, appropriations, gifts, grants and
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0021|     donations.
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0022|               B.  Money in the fund is appropriated to the
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0023|     administrative office of the district attorneys for the sole
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0024|     purpose of meeting necessary expenses incurred in the
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0025|     operation of the administrative office of the district
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0001|     attorneys.
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0002|               C.  Expenditures from the fund shall be pursuant to
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0003|     budgets approved by the state budget division of the
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0004|     department of finance and administration and made by warrant
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0005|     drawn by the secretary of finance and administration pursuant
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0006|     to vouchers signed by the director of the administrative
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0007|     office of the district attorneys or his authorized
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0008|     representative.
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0009|               D.  The fund shall not revert at the end of any
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0010|     fiscal year.
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0011|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0012|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0013|     immediately.
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