0001|                            SENATE BILL 69
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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|                              ROD ADAIR
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CIVIL ACTIONS; PROVIDING FOR MANDATORY AWARD OF
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0012|     COSTS TO PREVAILING PARTY; EXCEPTIONS.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  A new section of Chapter 39, Article 2 NMSA
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0016|     1978 is enacted to read:
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0017|          "[<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>] MANDATORY AWARD OF COSTS IN CIVIL
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0018|     ACTIONS--EXCEPTIONS.--In a civil action in a district,
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0019|     magistrate, metropolitan or municipal court, costs shall be
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0020|     awarded to the prevailing party except in those cases when a
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0021|     specific provision of a statute provides otherwise."
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0022|     .119977.1
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