0001|                            HOUSE BILL 165
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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|                         JAMES ROGER MADALENA
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO PUBLIC FINANCE; AMENDING THE NEW MEXICO FINANCE
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0012|     AUTHORITY ACT; 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.  Section 6-21-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1992,
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0016|     Chapter 61, Section 3, as amended) is amended to read:
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0017|          "6-21-3.  DEFINITIONS.--As used in the New Mexico Finance
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0018|     Authority Act:
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0019|               A.  "authority" means the New Mexico finance
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0020|     authority;
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0021|               B.  "bond" means any bonds, notes, certificates of
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0022|     participation or other evidence of indebtedness;
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0023|               C.  "bondholder" or "holder" means a person who is
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0024|     the owner of a bond, whether registered or not;
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0025|               D.  "public project" means the acquisition,
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0001|     construction, improvement, alteration or reconstruction of
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0002|     assets of a long-term capital nature by a qualified entity,
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0003|     including land; buildings; water rights; water, sewerage and
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0004|     waste disposal systems; streets; airports; municipal
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0005|     utilities; parking facilities; and machinery, furniture and
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0006|     equipment.  "Public project" includes all proposed
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0007|     expenditures related to the entire undertaking;
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0008|               E.  "qualified entity" means the state or <s>[any]</s>
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0009|     <u>an</u> agency or institution of the state or <s>[any]</s> <u>a</u> county;
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0010|     municipality; school district; land grant corporation;
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0011|     intercommunity water or natural gas supply <s>[associations]</s>
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0012|     <u>association</u> or <s>[corporations]</s> <u>corporation</u>; special
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0013|     district <s>[or]</s>; community water association; <s>[or an]</s> Indian
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0014|     nation, tribe or pueblo located wholly or partially in New
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0015|     Mexico, including a political subdivision or a wholly owned
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0016|     enterprise of an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo; <u>or a tribal
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<u></u>0017| <u>    or federally created two- or four-year post-secondary
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<u></u>0018| <u>    educational institution located in New Mexico</u>; and
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0019|               F.  "security" or "securities", unless the context
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0020|     indicates otherwise, means bonds, notes or other evidence of
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0021|     indebtedness issued by a qualified entity or leases or
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0022|     certificates or other evidence of participation in the
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0023|     lessor's interest in and rights under a lease with a qualified
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0024|     entity and that are payable from taxes, revenues, rates,
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0025|     charges, assessments or user fees or from the proceeds of
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0001|     funding or refunding bonds, notes or other <s>[evidences]</s>
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0002|     <u>evidence</u> of indebtedness of a qualified entity or from
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0003|     certificates or evidence of participation in a lease with a
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0004|     qualified entity."
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0005|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0006|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect
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0007|     immediately.
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