0001|                           SENATE BILL 914
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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|                          LEONARD LEE RAWSON
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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 ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IN DONA ANA
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0013|     COUNTY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  SEVERANCE TAX BONDS--PURPOSES FOR WHICH 
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0017|     ISSUED--APPROPRIATION OF PROCEEDS.--
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0018|               A.  The state board of finance may issue and sell
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0019|     severance tax bonds in compliance with the Severance Tax
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0020|     Bonding Act in an amount not exceeding nine hundred ninety
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0021|     thousand dollars ($990,000) when the state highway and
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0022|     transportation department certifies the need for the issuance
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0023|     of the bonds.  The state board of finance shall schedule the
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0024|     issuance and sale of the bonds in the most expeditious and
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0025|     economical manner possible upon a finding by the board that the
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0001|     project has been developed sufficiently to justify the issuance
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0002|     and that the project can proceed to contract within a
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0003|     reasonable time.  The state board of finance shall further take
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0004|     the appropriate steps necessary to comply with the Internal
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0005|     Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.  The proceeds from the sale
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0006|     of the bonds are appropriated to the state highway and
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0007|     transportation department in the following amounts for the

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0008|     following purposes:
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0009|                    (1)  one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to
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0010|     reconstruct one-half mile of Corona road between Moongate and
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0011|     Weisner road in Dona Ana county;
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0012|                    (2)  thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to
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0013|     reblade and apply double penetration surfacing on one and one-
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0014|     half miles of MacArthur road in the Moongate area in Dona Ana
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0015|     county;
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0016|                    (3)  one hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0017|     ($150,000) to resurface and construct improvements to streets
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0018|     in the Butterfield park area of East mesa in Dona Ana county;
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0019|                    (4)  one hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0020|     ($150,000) to resurface and construct improvements to two miles
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0021|     of streets in Organ in Dona Ana county;
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0022|                    (5)  one hundred fifty thousand dollars
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0023|     ($150,000) to reconstruct one mile of Rincon and MacArthur in
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0024|     Dona Ana county;
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0025|                    (6)  two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) to
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0001|     surface and improve two and two-thirds miles of Moongate D-069
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0002|     in Dona Ana county;
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0003|                    (7)  one hundred sixty thousand dollars
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0004|     ($160,000) to reconstruct eight-tenths of one mile of Kissiah
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0005|     drive in Dona Ana county; and
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0006|                    (8)  fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to
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0007|     acquire rights-of-way for the East mesa loop between United
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0008|     States highway 70 and the Mesquite interstate 10 interchange.
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0009|               B.  If the state highway and transportation
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0010|     department has not certified the need for the issuance of the
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0011|     bonds by the end of fiscal year 1999, the authorization
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0012|     provided in this section shall be void.  Any unexpended or
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0013|     unencumbered balance remaining from the proceeds of severance
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0014|     tax bonds issued pursuant to Subsection A of this section at
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0015|     the end of fiscal year 2000 shall revert to the severance tax
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0016|     bonding fund. 
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0017|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0018|     peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately.
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