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NM Stat § 3-50-17 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-17 - Additional remedies conferrable to an obligee.

A city shall have the power by its resolution, trust indenture, lease or other contract to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, or holding a lease, the right, in addition to all rights that may be otherwise conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in such resolution or instrument, by suit, action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction: A. to cause possession of any parking facility project or any part thereof to be surrendered to any such obligee, which possession may be retained by such bondholder or trustee so long as the city shall continue in default; B. to obtain the appointment of a receiver of any parking facility project of said city or any part thereof and of the rents and profits therefrom. If such receiver be appointed he may enter and take possession of such parking facility project or any part thereof and so long as the city shall continue in default operate and maintain the same, and collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues or other charges thereafter arising therefrom, and shall keep such moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of said city as the court shall direct; and C. to require said city and the officers and agents thereof to account for the money actually received as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-17, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-18 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-18 - Bonds; exemption from taxation.

Bonds and other evidences of indebtedness issued under the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law shall forever be and remain free and exempt from taxation by this state or any subdivision thereof. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-18, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-19 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-19 - Aid from federal government.

In addition to the powers conferred upon a city by other provisions of the Municipal Parking Law, a city is empowered to borrow money or accept contributions, grants or other financial assistance from the federal government for or in aid of any parking facility project within its area of operation; and, to these ends, to comply with such conditions, trust indentures, leases or agreements as may be necessary, convenient or desirable. It is the purpose and intent of the Municipal Parking Law to authorize every city to do any and all things necessary, convenient or desirable to secure the financial aid or cooperation of the federal government in the undertaking, acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of any parking facility project of such city. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-19, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-20 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-20 - Contracts; leases; increase of revenue.

Every contract entered into by the authority for the use of any project or the services or facilities thereof acquired, constructed or completed from the proceeds of the sale of revenue bonds shall incorporate by reference the provisions of any ordinance pursuant to which the bonds were issued. Every such contract or lease shall also refer to the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law with respect to the obligation of the city to fix fees and charges to meet the payments provided for in the Municipal Parking Law and the proceedings for the issuance of revenue bonds and all payments required to be made to the authority under such contract shall be subject to increase if and when the authority is required to increase rates or charges to meet its obligations hereunder and under any ordinance providing for the issuance of bonds. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-20, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-21 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-21 - Validity of law.

If any provision of the Municipal Parking Law, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the law, or the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-21, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-22 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-22 - Law controlling.

Insofar as the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law shall be controlling. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-22, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-51-1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-1 - Greater Municipality Parking Law; short title.

Sections 3-51-1 through 3-51-45 NMSA 1978, may be cited as the "Greater Municipality Parking Law." History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-1, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For improvement district for construction of parking facilities, see 3-33-4, 3-33-5 NMSA 1978. For the Municipal Parking Law, see 3-50-1 NMSA 1978 et seq. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 7A Am. Jur. 2d Automobiles and Highway Traffic §§ 271 to 284; 56 Am. Jur. 2d Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions §§ 214, 442. Off-street public parking facilities, municipal establishment or operation of, 8 A.L.R.2d 373. Parking meters, installation or operation as within governmental immunity from tort liability, 33 A.L.R.2d 761. Permissible use of funds from parking meters, 83 A.L.R.2d 625. Pledging parking-meter revenues as unlawful relinquishment of governmental power, 83 A.L.R.2d 649. Liability for loss of automobile left at parking lot or garage, 13 A.L.R.4th 362. Liability for damage to automobile left in parking lot or garage, 13 A.L.R.4th 442. Parking facility proprietor's liability for criminal attack on patron, 49 A.L.R.4th 1257. 60 C.J.S. Motor Vehicles § 28.
NM Stat § 3-51-2 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-2 - Finding and declaration of necessity.

It is hereby declared that: A. there exists in cities in the state of New Mexico serious conditions of congestion of street traffic, preventing free circulation of traffic, obstructing access to and use of both public and private property, increasing traffic hazards, impeding rapid and effective fighting of fires and the disposition of police forces and endangering the public peace, health and safety; B. this condition is caused in substantial part by insufficiency of space or accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets; C. the installation of parking meters and the establishment of additional parking facilities, together with all undertakings incidental or advantageous thereto for the improvement of traffic control and regulation, are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired; D. projects for such purposes will, in addition, confer special benefits on property within their environs; and E. it is in the public interest that work on projects for such purposes be commenced as soon as possible in order to relieve traffic congestion; and the necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted, is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1971, ch. 173, § 1. ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Off-street public parking facilities, 8 A.L.R.2d 373. Regulation and licensing of privately owned parking places, 29 A.L.R.2d 856. Installation or operation of parking meters as within governmental immunity from tort liability, 33 A.L.R.2d 761. Permissible use of funds from parking meters, 83 A.L.R.2d 625. Pledging parking-meter revenues as unlawful relinquishment of governmental power, 83 A.L.R.2d 649.
NM Stat § 3-51-3 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-3 - Definitions.

The following terms, wherever used or referred to in the Greater Municipality Parking Law, shall have the following respective meaning: A. "city" or "municipality" means any incorporated city, town or village, whether incorporated under general act, special act or special charter, and H class counties. "The city" means the particular city in which a particular parking district is created; B. "authority" or "parking authority" means any agent or agency of a city created pursuant to the Greater Municipality Parking Law; C. "district" or "parking district" means the area or portion of a city which shall be benefited and assessed for the improvements made pursuant to the Greater Municipality Parking Law; D. "governing body" means, in the case of a city, that body in which the legislative powers of the city are vested; E. "bonds" means any obligation issued by a city pursuant to the Greater Municipality Parking Law; F. "obligee" includes any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the city property used in connection with a parking facility or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest, or any part thereof, and the state or the United States or any agency of either, when a party to any contract with a city by which aid or a loan is given or made to the city; G. "project" means the acquisition, improvement or construction of parking facilities and also means parking facilities which have been acquired, improved or constructed within the area of a parking district not more than five years preceding the formation of the district, or any combination of any of the foregoing; H. "parking facilities" means any space on the streets or off the streets used for the purpose of parking motor vehicles, and includes buildings erected above or below the surface of the ground; I. "federal government" includes the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America; and J. "real property" or "property" includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1971, ch. 173, § 2.
NM Stat § 3-51-4 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-4 - Creation of parking authorities.

Every city, in addition to other powers conferred by the Greater Municipality Parking Law, shall have power and is hereby authorized by proper ordinance of its governing body: A. to create as an agent of the city, an authority to be known as the "Parking Authority" of the city; and B. to prescribe the number of members of said authority, the term of office of said members, their appointment and removal and the powers, rights and duties which they shall have and exercise. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-4, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-51-5 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-5 - Powers of city.

Every city shall have all the powers necessary, convenient, desirable or appropriate to carry out the purposes and provisions of the Greater Municipality Parking Law including the following powers in addition to other powers conferred by the Greater Municipality Parking Law: A. to purchase and install, maintain, regulate, operate and manage parking meters and parking spaces upon the streets of the city; B. to purchase, acquire, lease, rent, construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, repair, maintain, operate and manage parking facilities for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets together with public rights of way necessary or convenient therefor, including the leasing of the operation thereof, and including the leasing of a portion of the space at any such parking facility to private operators for commercial purposes, when in the judgment of the governing body it is convenient or necessary to permit such leasing in order to utilize the balance of the property as a parking facility; C. to purchase, acquire by gift, grant, bequest or devise or otherwise, any real or personal property or any interest therein, together with the improvement thereon, to be used as parking facilities or incident thereto; D. to insure or provide for the insurance of any parking facility established by the city against such risks and hazards as the city may deem advisable; E. to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property or personal property, or any interest therein which it deems necessary for its purposes under the Greater Municipality Parking Law after the adoption by it of an ordinance declaring that its acquisition is necessary for such purposes. This power shall be exercised in the manner provided by any applicable statutory provisions and laws of the state of New Mexico and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. Title to property so acquired shall be taken in the name of the city; F. to sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property, or any interest therein acquired for the purpose of the Greater Municipality Parking Law; and G. to receive, control, invest, order the expenditure of, any and all moneys and funds pertaining to parking facilities and parking meters, or related properties, if the same are not otherwise committed. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-5, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For condemnation proceedings, see 42A-1-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
NM Stat § 3-51-6 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-6 - Interested officers and employees.

It is against public policy for any officer or employee of a city to acquire any interest in any parking facilities or related properties or any commercial enterprise connected or incidental thereto, or to have any interest in any contract or proposed contract related to parking facilities, unless the officer or employee shall first disclose the same in writing to the governing body of the city. Such disclosures shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body of the city. Upon such disclosure, such officer or employee shall not participate in any action by the city affecting such property or contract. The failure so to disclose such interest shall constitute misconduct in office and the governing body may take such action with reference to any such contract or interest as it deems advisable. Any such contract or interest shall be void at the election of the governing body. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-6, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-51-7 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-7 - Planning, zoning and building laws.

All parking facilities of the city shall be subject to planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the parking facility is situated. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-7, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-51-8 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-8 - Lease of parking facilities.

If a city desires to lease any project acquired by it under the provisions of the Greater Municipality Parking Law it may do so under such procedures as it shall prescribe. The city may accept such lease proposal as it deems to be in the public interest and in furtherance of the purposes of the Greater Municipality Parking Law. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-8, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 173, § 3. ANNOTATIONSRepeals and reenactments. — Laws 1971, ch. 173, § 3, repealed 14-52-8, 1953 Comp., relating to lease of parking facilities, and enacted the above section.
NM Stat § 3-51-9 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-9 - Formation of district by governing body; provisional order.

A. Whenever the governing body of any city determines that special assessments shall be levied to wholly or partially finance any project, the governing body by resolution shall direct the preparation of: (1) preliminary plans showing: (a) a general description of the contemplated project; and (b) a preliminary estimate of the cost of the project, including incidental costs; and (2) an assessment plat showing the proposed area to be assessed. B. The resolution may provide for one or more types of construction and shall separately estimate the cost of each type of construction. The estimate may be made in a lump sum or by unit prices, as may seem most desirable for the project complete in place. C. The resolution shall describe and locate the project in general terms. D. The resolution shall state: (1) what part or portion of the expense thereof is of special benefit and therefore shall be paid by assessments; and (2) what part, if any, has been or is proposed to be defrayed with moneys derived from other than the levy of assessments. E. The resolution shall: (1) by apt description designate the parking district, including the tracts proposed to be assessed; and (2) state that the assessment is to be made upon all the tracts benefited by the project proportionately to the benefits received. F. It shall not be necessary in any case to describe minutely in the resolution each particular tract to be assessed, but simply to designate the property, district or the location, so that the various parts to be assessed can be ascertained and determined to be within or without the proposed district. G. The preliminary plans and assessment plat shall forthwith be prepared and filed with the city clerk. H. Upon the filing of the plans and plat, the governing body shall examine the same; and if the plans and plat be found to be satisfactory, the governing body by resolution shall make a provisional order to the effect that such parking district shall be formed. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-9, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 173, § 4. ANNOTATIONSRepeals and reenactments. — Laws 1971, ch. 173, § 4 repealed 14-52-9, 1953 Comp., relating to formation of district by governing body, and enacted the above section.
NM Stat § 3-51-10 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-10 - Formation of district by petition.

A. A district for the construction of any improvement authorized by the Greater Municipality Parking Law may be formed by the filing of a petition in the office of the clerk of the city in which the district is to be formed, signed by the owners of not less than one-half of the assessed value of all the real property within the tentative boundaries of the proposed district, as shown by the last preceding assessment roll of the county wherein such district is proposed to be formed. B. The petition may be signed by any private corporation or, upon being authorized by the proper court, by a trustee, guardian, executor or administrator of an estate who is appointed as such under the laws of this state and who as such trustee, guardian, executor or administrator is entitled to exercise the rights of ownership of the real property belonging to the estate which he represents. C. In determining whether a requisite number of property owners have signed the petition, the governing body of the city may rely upon the names appearing in the records of the county assessor, which shall be prima facie evidence of ownership. D. The petition shall set forth: (1) a general description of the proposed boundaries of the district; (2) a general description of the contemplated project and its proposed location; (3) a request that the governing body of the city declare the formation of a parking district; and (4) a statement that the petition is filed pursuant to this section. E. Upon filing of a petition satisfying the requirements of this section, in the office of the clerk of the city, the governing body shall proceed as if the formation of the district had been initiated by the governing body pursuant to Section 3-51-9 NMSA 1978. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-10, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1971, ch. 173, § 5.
NM Stat § 3-51-11 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 51 - Greater Municipality Parking|Section 3-51-11 - Formation of district; provisional order hearing; notice.

A. In the provisional order the governing body shall set a time at least twenty days thereafter and place at which the owners of the property to be assessed may appear and be heard as to the propriety and advisability of forming the parking district which has been provisionally ordered. B. Notice shall be given: (1) by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the city once each week on the same weekday for two consecutive weeks, the last publication to be at least five days prior to the date of the hearing; and (2) by mailing a copy of the notice to each of the property owners at his last known address at least ten days before such hearing. The names and addresses of the property owners shall be obtained from the records of the county assessor or from such other sources as the city clerk deems reliable. C. Proof of publication shall be by affidavit of the publisher. D. Proof of mailing shall be by affidavit of the person mailing the notice. E. The notice shall describe: (1) the project proposed (without mentioning minor details or incidentals); (2) the estimated cost of the project and the part or portion, if any, to be paid from sources other than assessments; (3) the fact that assessments shall be in proportion to the special benefits derived to the property comprising the proposed district; (4) the extent of the proposed district to be assessed (by boundaries or other brief description); (5) the maximum amount of the preliminary fund assessment, if any, to be levied against the property within the district pursuant to Section 3-51-14 NMSA 1978; (6) the time and place when and where the governing body will consider the ordering of the proposed project and hear all objections that may be made in writing and filed with the city clerk at least two days prior thereto, or verbally at the hearing, concerning the same, by the owner of any property to be assessed; and (7) the fact that the description of the property proposed to be assessed and all proceedings in the premises are on file and can be seen and examined at the office of the city clerk during business hours, at any time, by any person so interested. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-52-10.1, enacted by Laws 1971, ch. 173, § 6.