0001|                           SENATE BILL 339
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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|                          ARTHUR H. RODARTE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO THE NEW MEXICO HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER ACT;
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0012|     PROVIDING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF THE ONATE
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0013|     MONUMENT AND VISITORS CENTER BY THE HISPANIC CULTURAL
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0014|     DIVISION; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  A new section of the New Mexico Hispanic
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0018|     Cultural Center Act is enacted to read:
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0019|          "[<u>NEW MATERIAL</u>] ADDITIONAL DUTIES--ONATE MONUMENT AND
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0020|     VISITORS CENTER.--In addition to the powers and duties
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0021|     enumerated in Section 18-12-7 NMSA 1978, the executive
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0022|     director shall be responsible for the operation of the Onate
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0023|     monument and visitors center in Rio Arriba county.  The Onate
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0024|     monument and visitors center shall be a facility of the
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0025|     division and the powers and duties of the board, division and
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0001|     executive director relating to the New Mexico Hispanic
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0002|     cultural center shall also apply to the Onate monument and
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0003|     visitors center."
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0004|          Section 2.  APPROPRIATION.--Five hundred thousand dollars
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0005|     ($500,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0006|     Hispanic cultural division of the office of cultural affairs
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0007|     for expenditure in fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the purpose
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0008|     of administering and operating the Onate monument and visitors
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0009|     center.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at
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0010|     the end of fiscal year 1999 shall revert to the general fund.
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0011|          Section 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0012|     provisions of this act is the first day of the month following
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0013|     the month in which the executive director of the Hispanic
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0014|     cultural division certifies to the secretary of finance and
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0015|     administration that the board of county commissioners for Rio
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0016|     Arriba county has:
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0017|               A.  entered into a long-term lease with the office
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0018|     of cultural affairs for the Onate monument and visitors
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0019|     center; and
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0020|               B.  transferred all other tangible and intangible
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0021|     property of the Onate monument and visitors center to the
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0022|     office of cultural affairs.
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