44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO STATE PARKS; REQUIRING THE LEGISLATURE TO SET FEES FOR STATE PARKS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. A new section of Chapter 16, Article 2 NMSA 1978 is enacted to read:

"[NEW MATERIAL] STATE PARK FEES--LEGISLATIVE RESPONSIBILITY.--

A. The legislature shall set fees for the state parks and may not delegate that duty to an executive agency. The state parks division of the energy, minerals and natural resources department may suggest to the legislature a new fee schedule or changes to an existing fee schedule in order to fulfill its duty to make the state parks as nearly self-supporting as possible; however, fee changes may not be implemented unless the change is approved by the legislature and set forth in statute.

B. The legislature shall approve, in the form of a bill during the second session of the forty-fourth legislature, a fee schedule for the state parks.

C. The fee schedule in place on April 1, 1999 shall remain in effect until July 1, 2000 unless otherwise supplanted prior to that date by a fee schedule adopted by the legislature."

Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 1999.