0001|                           SENATE BILL 370
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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|                           DIANNA J. DURAN
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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 VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS AT THE
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0013|     INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME IN ALAMOGORDO IN OTERO COUNTY;
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0014|     MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN 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 seven hundred sixty-one
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0022|     thousand dollars ($761,000) when the office of cultural affairs
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0023|     certifies the need for the issuance of the bonds.  The state
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0024|     board of finance shall schedule the issuance and sale of the
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0025|     bonds in the most expeditious and economical manner possible
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0001|     upon a finding by the board that the project has been developed
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0002|     sufficiently to justify the issuance and that the project can
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0003|     proceed to contract within a reasonable time.  The state board
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0004|     of finance shall further take the appropriate steps necessary
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0005|     to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
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0006|     The proceeds from the sale of the bonds are appropriated to the
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0007|     office of cultural affairs in the following amounts for the
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0008|     following purposes:
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0009|                    (1)  three hundred twenty-nine thousand dollars
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0010|     ($329,000) for re-roofing the Clyde Tombaugh space theater and
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0011|     planetarium;
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0012|                    (2)  one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars
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0013|     ($125,000) for planning, designing and installing a computer-
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0014|     controlled environmental heating and cooling system throughout 
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0015|     international space hall of fame;
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0016|                    (3)  seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for
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0017|     planning, designing and paving part of Eddy drive adjacent to
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0018|     the museum and the museum's support center parking area; and
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0019|                    (4)  two hundred thirty-seven thousand dollars
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0020|     ($237,000) for remodeling and renovation of the international
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0021|     space hall of fame necessary for compliance with the federal
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0022|     Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
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0023|               B.  If the office of cultural affairs has not
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0024|     certified the need for the issuance of the bonds by the end of
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0025|     fiscal year 1999, the authorization provided in this section
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0001|     shall be void.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance
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0002|     remaining from the proceeds of severance tax bonds issued
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0003|     pursuant to Subsection A of this section at the end of fiscal
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0004|     year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax bonding fund. 
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0005|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0006|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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