0001|                            SENATE BILL 95
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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|                          PHILLIP J. MALOOF
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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 IMPROVEMENTS TO AND EXPANSION OF THE
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0013|     FACILITIES AT BASEBALL FIELDS ON THE WEST SIDE OF ALBUQUERQUE
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0014|     IN BERNALILLO COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN
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0015|     EMERGENCY.
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0017|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0018|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSE FOR WHICH ISSUED-
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0019|     -APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0020|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0021|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0022|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding seven hundred fifty
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0023|     thousand dollars ($750,000) when the local government division
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0024|     of the department of finance and administration certifies the
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0025|     need for the issuance of the bonds.  The state board of finance
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0001|     shall schedule the issuance and sale of the bonds in the most
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0002|     expeditious and economical manner possible upon a finding by
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0003|     the board that the project has been developed sufficiently to
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0004|     justify the issuance and that the project can proceed to
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0005|     contract within a reasonable time.  The state board of finance
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0006|     shall further take the appropriate steps necessary to comply
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0007|     with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The
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0008|     proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0009|     local government division of the department of finance and
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0010|     administration in the following amounts for the following 
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0011|     projects on the west side of Albuquerque in Bernalillo county:
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0012|                    (1)  five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000)
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0013|     to make improvements to and expand the facility of the West
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0014|     Mesa little league park located north of Sequoia road and east
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0015|     of Coors boulevard; and
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0016|                    (2)  two hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0017|     ($250,000) to make improvements to and expand the facility of
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0018|     the Atrisco little league park located south of Central avenue
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0019|     and west of Atrisco drive.  
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0020|               B.  If the local government division of the
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0021|     department of finance and administration has not certified the
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0022|     need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of fiscal year
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0023|     1999, the authorization provided in this section shall be void. 
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0024|     Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining from the
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0025|     proceeds of severance tax bonds issued pursuant to Subsection A
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0001|     of this section at the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to
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0002|     the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0003|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0004|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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