0001|                           SENATE BILL 829
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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|                           MANNY M. ARAGON
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO ALBUQUERQUE METROPOLITAN ARROYO FLOOD CONTROL;
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0012|     AMENDING A CERTAIN SECTION OF THE NMSA 1978 TO INCREASE DEBT
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0013|     AUTHORIZATION.
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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 72-16-44 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1963,
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0017|     Chapter 311, Section 44, as amended) is amended to read:
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0018|          "72-16-44.  ISSUANCE OF BONDS AND INCURRENCE OF DEBT.--The
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0019|     authority is authorized to borrow money in anticipation of
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0020|     taxes or other revenues, or both, and to issue bonds to
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0021|     evidence the amount so borrowed.  No bonded indebtedness or any
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0022|     other indebtedness not payable in full within one year, except
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0023|     for interim debentures as provided in Sections 72-16-46 and 72-
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0024|     16-89 through 72-16-91 NMSA 1978, shall be created by the
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0025|     authority without first submitting a proposition of issuing
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0001|     such bonds to the qualified electors of the authority and being
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0002|     approved by a majority of such electors voting thereon at an
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0003|     election held for that purpose in accordance with Sections 72-
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0004|     16-28 through 72-16-34 NMSA 1978 and all laws amendatory
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0005|     thereof and supplemental thereto.  Bonds so authorized may be
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0006|     issued in one series or more and may mature at such time or
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0007|     times not exceeding forty years from their issuance as the
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0008|     board may determine.  The total of all outstanding indebtedness
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0009|     at any one time shall not exceed <s>[twenty million dollars
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<s></s>0010| <s>    ($20,000,000)]</s> <u>sixty million dollars ($60,000,000)</u> without
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0011|     prior approval of the state legislature."
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