0001|                            HOUSE BILL 300
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             JOE M STELL
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF
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0012|     SEVERANCE TAX BONDS FOR CITY OF CARLSBAD CAPITAL OUTLAY
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0013|     PROJECTS IN EDDY COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0014|     EMERGENCY.
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0016|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0018|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0019|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0020|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0021|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding one million forty
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0022|     thousand dollars ($1,040,000) when the local government
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0023|     division of the department of finance and administration
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0024|     certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The state
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0025|     board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of the
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0001|     bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible
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0002|     upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed
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0003|     sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can
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0004|     proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The state board
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0005|     of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary
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0006|     to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
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0007|     The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0008|     local government division in the following amounts for the
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0009|     following purposes:
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0010|                    (1)  six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000)
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0011|     for planning, designing and constructing a retaining wall for
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0012|     Lake Carlsbad in Eddy county;
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0013|                    (2)  two hundred ten thousand dollars
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0014|     ($210,000) for the installation of insulation and a
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0015|     maintenance-free covering on the buildings at the Pecos river
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0016|     village in Eddy county;
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0017|                    (3)  thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to
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0018|     purchase hardware and software to develop and design a
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0019|     computerized geographic information system for the city of
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0020|     Carlsbad in Eddy county;
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0021|                    (4)  eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) to
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0022|     purchase and install lighting fixtures, standards and related
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0023|     material or equipment for little league baseball and softball
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0024|     fields in the city of Carlsbad in Eddy county; and
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0025|                    (5)  one hundred twenty thousand dollars
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0001|     ($120,000) to renovate and resurface tennis courts at Carlsbad
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0002|     high school, P.R. Leyva middle school and Fifth Street park in
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0003|     the city of Carlsbad in Eddy county.
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0004|               B.  If the local government division has not
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0005|     certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of
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0006|     fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0007|     shall be void.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0008|     remaining from the proceeds of severance tax bonds issued
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0009|     pursuant to Subsection A of this section at the end of fiscal
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0010|     year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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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 immediately.
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