0001|                         SENATE BILL 87
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                          GLORIA HOWES
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0011|                             AN ACT
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0012|     RELATING TO MUNICIPALITIES; PROVIDING MUNICIPALITIES WITH
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0013|     AUTHORITY TO ADOPT CURFEW ORDINANCES; VESTING CERTAIN COURTS
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0014|     WITH EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OVER CURFEW VIOLATIONS; PRESCRIBING
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0015|     PENALTIES; AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE NMSA 1978.
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0016|     
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|       Section 1.  Section 3-17-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1965,
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0019|     Chapter 300, Section 14-16-1, as amended) is amended to read:
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0020|       "3-17-1.  ORDINANCES--PURPOSES.--The governing body of a
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0021|     municipality may adopt ordinances or resolutions not
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0022|     inconsistent with the laws of New Mexico for the purpose of:
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0023|            A.  effecting or discharging the powers and duties
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0024|     conferred by law upon the municipality;
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0025|            B.  providing for the safety, preserving the health,
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0001|     promoting the prosperity and improving the morals, order,
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0002|     comfort and convenience of the municipality and its inhabitants;
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0003|     and
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0004|            C.  enforcing obedience to the ordinances by
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0005|     prosecution in the municipal court and metropolitan courts and
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0006|     upon conviction the imposition of:
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0007|                 (1)  except for those violations of ordinances
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0008|     described in Paragraphs (2) <s>[and (3)]</s> <u>through (4)</u> of this
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0009|     subsection, a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500)

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0010|     or imprisonment for not more than ninety days or both;
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0011|                 (2)  for a violation of an ordinance prohibiting
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0012|     driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of
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0013|     intoxicating liquor or drugs, a fine of not more than one
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0014|     thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment for not more than
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0015|     three hundred sixty-four days or both; <s>[and]</s>
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0016|                 (3)  for violations of an industrial user
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0017|     wastewater pretreatment ordinance as required by the United
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0018|     States environmental protection agency, a fine of not more
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0019|     than one thousand dollars ($1,000) a day for each violation;
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0020|     <u>and</u>
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0021|                 <u>(4)  for a violation of a curfew ordinance, a
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<u></u>0022| <u>    fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or community
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<u></u>0023| <u>    service or both</u>."
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0024|       Section 2.  Section 32A-2-29 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1993,
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0025|     Chapter 77, Section 58) is amended to read:
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0001|       "32A-2-29.  MOTOR VEHICLE CODE VIOLATIONS--<u>CURFEW
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<u></u>0002| <u>    VIOLATIONS</u>.--
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0003|            A.  The municipal, magistrate or metropolitan court
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0004|     shall have original exclusive jurisdiction over all Motor
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0005|     Vehicle Code, <s>[or]</s> municipal traffic code <u>or municipal
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<u></u>0006| <u>    curfew</u> violations when the person alleged to have committed the
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0007|     violation is a child, with the exception of those violations
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0008|     contained in Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of Section <s>[32-2-3]</s>
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0009|     <u>32A-2-3</u> NMSA 1978 and all traffic offenses alleged to have
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0010|     been committed by the child arising out of the same occurrence
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0011|     pursuant to Subsection B of this section.  
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0012|            B.  If the <s>[children's]</s> court acquires jurisdiction
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0013|     over a child pursuant to any of those Motor Vehicle Code
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0014|     violations contained in Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of Section
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0015|     <s>[32-2-3]</s> <u>32A-2-3</u> NMSA 1978, it shall have jurisdiction over
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0016|     all traffic offenses alleged to have been committed by the child
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0017|     arising out of the same occurrence.  
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0018|            C.  All traffic offenses <s>[which]</s> <u>that</u> the child
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0019|     is found to have committed by the municipal, magistrate or
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0020|     metropolitan court or for which the child is adjudicated
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0021|     delinquent by the children's court shall be subject to the
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0022|     reporting requirements and the suspension and revocation
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0023|     provisions of the Motor Vehicle Code and shall not be subject to
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0024|     the confidentiality provisions of the Delinquency Act.  
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0025|            D.  No tribunal may incarcerate any child who has
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0001|     been found guilty of any Motor Vehicle Code or municipal traffic
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0002|     code violations without first securing the approval of the
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0003|     <s>[children's]</s> court." 
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0004|       Section 3.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0005|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1996.
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0008|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0009|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0012|                                              JANUARY 31, 1996
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0014|   Mr. President:
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0016|     Your COMMITTEES' COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0017|   
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0018|                           SENATE BILL 87
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0020|   has had it under consideration and finds same to be GERMANE, PURSUANT 
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0021|   TO HOUSE EXECUTIVE MESSAGE FORTY SEVEN, and thence referred to the
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0022|   PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
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0024|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0004|                              __________________________________
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0005|                              SENATOR MANNY M. ARAGON, Chairman 
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0009|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0010|             (Chief Clerk)                        (Chief Clerk)
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0017|   S0087CC1
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