0001|                           SENATE BILL 466
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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|                          MICHAEL S. SANCHEZ
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO EDUCATION; PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
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0012|     SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY IN
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0013|     LAS CRUCES IN DONA ANA COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  Section 21-8-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1889,
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0017|     Chapter 138, Section 19, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "21-8-1. <u>PURPOSE AND CHARACTER OF NEW MEXICO STATE
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<u></u>0019| <u>    UNIVERSITY</u>. <s>[SEC. 112. The]</s> New Mexico <s>[College of
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<s></s>0020| <s>    Agriculture and Mechanic Arts]</s> <u>state university</u> shall be an
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0021|     institution of learning open to the children of all the
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0022|     residents of this state and <u>to</u> such other persons as the
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0023|     board of regents may determine, under such terms, rules and
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0024|     regulations as may be prescribed by <s>[said]</s> <u>the</u> board of
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0025|     regents. <u>The university</u> shall be nonsectarian in character
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0001|     and devoted to practical instruction in agriculture <u>and
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<u></u>0002| <u>    veterinary science</u>, mechanic arts <u>and</u> natural sciences
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0003|     connected therewith, as well as a thorough course of
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0004|     instruction in all branches of learning bearing upon
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0005|     agriculture and other industrial pursuits."
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0006|          Section 2.  Section 21-8-3 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1889,
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0007|     Chapter 138, Section 20, as amended) is amended to read:
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0008|          "21-8-3. <u>CURRICULUM--BOARD OF REGENTS--NUMBER--
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<u></u>0009| <u>    QUALIFICATIONS--QUORUM</u>.--The course of instruction of <s>[the
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<s></s>0010| <s>    college hereby created]</s> <u>New Mexico state university</u> shall
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0011|     embrace the English language, literature, mathematics,
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0012|     philosophy, civil engineering, chemistry, <s>[and]</s> animal and
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0013|     vegetable anatomy and physiology, <u>veterinary medicine and</u> the
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0014|     veterinary art, entomology, geology, <s>[and]</s> political, rural
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0015|     and household economy, horticulture, moral philosophy, history,
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0016|     mechanics and such other sciences and courses of instruction as
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0017|     shall be prescribed by the <u>board of</u> regents of <s>[this
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<s></s>0018| <s>    institution of learning]</s> <u>New Mexico state university</u>.  The
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0019|     management of <s>[said college]</s> <u>the university</u> and experiment
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0020|     station, the care and preservation of all property of which
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0021|     <s>[such institution]</s> <u>the </u>university shall become possessed,
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0022|     the erection and construction of all buildings necessary for
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0023|     the use of <s>[said college]</s> <u>the university</u> and station and
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0024|     the disbursement and expenditure of all <s>[moneys]</s> <u>money</u>
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0025|     provided for by <s>[this act]</s> <u>law</u> shall be vested in a board
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0001|     of five regents. <s>[Said]</s> <u>The</u> five regents shall possess the
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0002|     same qualifications <s>[as]</s> required for the regents of the
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0003|     university of New Mexico. <s>[Said]</s> <u>The</u> regents <s>[and their
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<s></s>0004| <s>    successors in office]</s> shall constitute a body corporate with
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0005|     the name and style of the <s>[The]</s> regents of <s>[the]</s> New Mexico
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0006|     <s>[College of agriculture and mechanic arts]</s> <u>state
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<u></u>0007| <u>    university</u>, with the right as such of suing and being sued,
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0008|     <s>[of]</s> contracting and being contracted with, <s>[of]</s> making and
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0009|     using a common seal and altering the same at pleasure <s>[of]</s>
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0010|     <u>and</u> causing all things to be done necessary to carry out the
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0011|     provisions of law.  A majority of the board shall constitute a
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0012|     quorum for the transaction of business, but a <s>[less]</s> <u>lesser</u>
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0013|     number may adjourn from time to time."
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0014|          Section 3.  APPROPRIATION.--Three hundred million dollars
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0015|     ($300,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the
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0016|     board of regents of New Mexico state university for expenditure
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0017|     in fiscal year 1998 for the purpose of establishing, making
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0018|     capital expenditures for and operating a school of veterinary
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0019|     medicine at the main campus of New Mexico state university in
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0020|     Las Cruces.  Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining
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0021|     at the end of fiscal year 1998 shall revert to the general
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0022|     fund.
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0023|          Section 4.  EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the
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0024|     provisions of this act is July 1, 1997.
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