0001|                           SENATE BILL 986
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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|                          CARLOS R. CISNEROS
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO ANNEXATION; PROVIDING FOR DESIGNATION AS
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0012|     TRADITIONAL HISTORIC COMMUNITY IN ANY COUNTY.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  Section 3-7-1.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1995,
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0016|     Chapter 170, Section 5 and Laws 1995, Chapter 211, Section 4)
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0017|     is amended to read:
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0018|          "3-7-1.1.  TRADITIONAL HISTORIC COMMUNITY--
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0019|     QUALIFICATIONS--ANNEXATION RESTRICTIONS.--
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0020|               A.  To qualify as a traditional historic community,
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0021|     an area shall:
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0022|                    (1)  be an unincorporated area of a <s>[class B]</s>
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0023|     county <s>[with a population between ninety-five thousand and
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<s></s>0024| <s>    ninety-nine thousand five hundred, based on the 1990 federal
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<s></s>0025| <s>    decennial census]</s>;
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0001|                    (2)  be an identifiable village, community,
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0002|     neighborhood or district that can be documented as having
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0003|     existed for more than one hundred years;
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0004|                    (3)  include structures or landmarks that are
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0005|     associated with the identity of the specific village,
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0006|     community, neighborhood or district seeking designation as a
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0007|     traditional historic community;
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0008|                    (4)  have a distinctive character or
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0009|     traditional quality that can be distinguished from surrounding
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0010|     areas or new developments in the vicinity; and
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0011|                    (5)  be declared a traditional historic
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0012|     community by an ordinance of the board of county commissioners
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0013|     of the county in which the petitioning village, community,
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0014|     neighborhood or district is located.
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0015|               B.  A traditional historic community may be annexed
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0016|     by a municipality only by petition of a majority of the
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0017|     registered qualified electors of the territory within the
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0018|     traditional historic community proposed to be annexed by the
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0019|     municipality or by the arbitration method of annexation only
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0020|     upon petition of a majority of the registered qualified
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0021|     electors of the territory within the traditional historic
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0022|     community."
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