0001|                           HOUSE BILL 1234
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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|                          DELORES C. WRIGHT
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO JUDGES; PROVIDING FOR TWO ADDITIONAL MAGISTRATE
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0012|     JUDGES IN DONA ANA MAGISTRATE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR
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0013|     APPOINTMENT AND ELECTION; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978;
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0014|     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.  Section 35-1-10 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1968,
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0018|     Chapter 62, Section 12, as amended) is amended to read:
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0019|          "35-1-10.  MAGISTRATE COURT--DONA ANA DISTRICT.--There
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0020|     shall be <s>[three]</s> <u>five</u> magistrates in Dona Ana magistrate
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0021|     district, <u>with</u> divisions 1, 2 and 3 operating as a single
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0022|     court in Las Cruces.  The magistrates <u>in divisions 1, 2 and 3</u>
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0023|     shall rotate riding circuit to <s>[Anthony and]</s> Hatch on a
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0024|     regularly scheduled basis.  <u>The magistrates in divisions 4 and
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<u></u>0025| <u>    5 shall operate as a single court in Anthony</u>."
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0001|          Section 2.  TEMPORARY PROVISION--APPOINTMENT--DIVISIONS 4
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0002|     AND 5--ELECTION.--
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0003|               A.  The office of magistrate in Dona Ana magistrate
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0004|     divisions 4 and 5 shall be filled by appointment by the
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0005|     governor.  The appointed magistrates shall begin serving
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0006|     January 1, 1998 and shall serve until succeeded by magistrates
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0007|     elected pursuant to Subsection B of this section.
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0008|               B.  The first full term of the office of magistrate
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0009|     in Dona Ana magistrate divisions 4 and 5 shall be filled by
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0010|     election at the general election in 1998, and those terms of
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0011|     office shall begin on January 1, 1999.
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0012|          Section 3.  APPROPRIATION.--One hundred fifty thousand
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0013|     dollars ($150,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0014|     Dona Ana magistrate district for expenditure in fiscal year
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0015|     1998 for three additional full-time-equivalent positions.  Any
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0016|     unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of
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0017|     fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general fund.
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