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NM Stat § 3-48-5 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 48 - Refuse; Collection and Disposal|Section 3-48-5 - Refuse; assessment roll; publication of notice of hearing.

A. To collect the assessment authorized in Section 3-48-4 NMSA 1978, the governing body shall have prepared an assessment roll. The assessment roll shall list, in columns: (1) the name of the owner, if known, of the parcel of real estate being assessed; (2) a description of the parcel of real estate being assessed; (3) the amount assessed against each parcel of real estate; and (4) describe, in general terms, the removal and what was removed from the real estate being assessed. B. The municipal clerk shall publish a notice stating that the assessment roll for delinquent refuse collection charges due the municipality is on file in the office of the municipal clerk and the time and place when the governing body will hear appeals or protests by any person aggrieved by the assessment. The notice shall be published once not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the day of the protest hearing. If the address of the owner of the real property is known, a copy of the notice shall be mailed by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the known address of the owner of the real property being assessed. C. The provisions of this section are intended to afford an additional and not an exclusive method for enforcing payment of charges for refuse collection furnished by the municipality. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-49-5, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1967, ch. 146, § 9; 1981, ch. 92, § 1. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For assessment of fees for county refuse collection, see 4-56-3 NMSA 1978. Severability clauses. — Laws 1981, ch. 92, § 2, provided for the severability of the act if any part or application thereof is held invalid.
NM Stat § 3-48-6 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 48 - Refuse; Collection and Disposal|Section 3-48-6 - Refuse; protest meeting; confirmation; finality.

A. At the protest hearing authorized in Section 3-48-5 NMSA 1978, any interested person may protest to the governing body the: (1) regularity of the proceedings; (2) amount assessed against the real estate; or (3) correctness of the amount of the assessment. B. The governing body shall: (1) determine the regularity of the proceedings; (2) correct any errors found in the assessment; and (3) by resolution, confirm the proceedings and the assessments. The proceedings and assessments so confirmed shall be deemed to be the final determination as to the regularity, validity and correctness of the assessment. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-49-6, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-48-7 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 48 - Refuse; Collection and Disposal|Section 3-48-7 - Refuse; delinquent assessments; penalty; lien; foreclosure.

On or before October 1, of each year, the municipal clerk shall certify to the governing body a list containing any delinquent assessment with penalty added for nonpayment of the assessment at the rate of one percent per month of any assessment confirmed by resolution as provided in Section 3-48-6 NMSA 1978, and describe the parcel of real estate to which the assessment is applicable. After the certified list is accepted by the governing body, the assessment shall be a lien, when processed, against the parcel of real estate and shall be processed as provided in Sections 3-36-1 to 3-36-5 NMSA 1978. Any such lien shall be a lien superior to all other liens except general property taxes upon the property so charged and a personal liability of the owner of the property so charged. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-49-7, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1967, ch. 146, § 10.
NM Stat § 3-49-2 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 49 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds|Section 3-49-2 - Straightening or altering streets; exchange of street land for land on new route; consent of owner; deeds.

Whenever it is necessary to straighten or alter any street to facilitate traffic, the governing body may: A. with the consent of the owner, exchange the land on which the street lies for any land owned and held in fee simple; B. convert the land received from the owner in fee simple to a street; and C. execute a deed to the land on which the street lies to the owner who has exchanged his land with the municipality for the land on which the street lies. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-50-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-49-3 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 49 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds|Section 3-49-3 - Street sprinkling and maintenance; assessment; lien for assessment.

A. Whenever the governing body determines that the streets shall be watered or maintained in whole or in part at the expense of the owner of any property which abuts upon the streets, the governing body shall determine: (1) the expense of watering or maintaining the streets; (2) the proportion of the expense to be borne by the owner of property which abuts upon the streets; (3) the charge to be assessed against each lineal foot of frontage of the abutting property; and (4) assess, according to its frontage, each tract or parcel of abutting property its proportionate share of the expense of watering or maintaining the streets. B. The assessment for the expense of watering or maintaining the streets shall be collected as authorized in Section 3-23-1 NMSA 1978, and shall be a lien against the tract or parcel of property abutting the street and the lien shall be enforced as provided in Sections 3-36-1 through 3-36-5 NMSA 1978. C. As used in this section the term "streets" shall include both improved and unimproved streets, alleys, parkways, boulevards, thoroughfares, and median and divider strips, or any combination of the foregoing. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-50-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1967, ch. 90, § 3. ANNOTATIONSBasis for assessment. — Property owner is to be assessed on how much property he owns that abuts on the street; he is not to pay a flat fee. 1967 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 67-10. Assessment against school district. — There is no authority for the municipality to make an assessment against a school district to pay the cost of watering or maintaining the streets. This does not mean that a school district which has benefited from street sprinkling and maintenance may not budget and pay for such services when they are rendered by a municipality pursuant to this section. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-03. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 40 Am. Jur. 2d Highways, Streets and Bridges § 87; 70A Am. Jur. 2d Special or Local Assessments § 43. Liability for act of employee engaged in sprinkling or cleaning streets, 14 A.L.R. 1473, 32 A.L.R. 988, 52 A.L.R. 187, 60 A.L.R. 101, 156 A.L.R. 692, 714. Liability for injury or damage due to sprinkling of street, 51 A.L.R. 575, 156 A.L.R. 692. 63 C.J.S. Municipal Corporations § 1307.
NM Stat § 3-49-5 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 49 - Streets, Sidewalks and Public Grounds|Section 3-49-5 - Streets; public grounds; water systems; sewers; sidewalks; assessments.

A. For the purpose of Sections 3-49-1 and 3-53-1 NMSA 1978, a municipality may: (1) open, construct, repair, keep in order and maintain water mains, laterals, reservoirs, standpipes, sewers and drains; and (2) assess and collect as other assessments and collections are made the amount necessary to cover the cost of such work. B. The assessment against the lot or land along or through which the street, alley, sidewalk or public ground runs shall be made in such portion as is just and equitable according to the benefits accruing to the lot or land and to its value. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-50-5, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For power of municipality to open, construct, repair, keep in order and maintain water mains, laterals, reservoirs, standpipes, sewers and drains, see 3-18-25 NMSA 1978. For water facilities, see 3-27-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
NM Stat § 3-50-1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-1 - Municipal Parking Law; short title.

Sections 3-50-1 through 3-50-22 NMSA 1978, may be cited as the "Municipal Parking Law." History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-1, 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 Greater Municipality Parking Law, see 3-51-1 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. Regulation and licensing of privately owned parking places, 29 A.L.R.2d 856. 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 § 3-50-2 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-2 - Finding and declaration of necessity.

It is hereby declared: A. that 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. that this condition is caused in substantial part by insufficiency of space or accommodations for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets; C. that 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. that 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., § 14-51-2, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-3 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-3 - Definitions.

As used in the Municipal Parking Law: A. "city" means any municipality having a population of five thousand or more. "The city" means the particular city for which a particular authority is created; B. "authority" or "parking authority" means any agent or agency of a city created pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law; C. "governing body" means, in the case of a city, that body in which the legislative powers of the city are vested; D. "bonds" means any obligation issued by a city pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law; E. "obligee" includes any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the authority or 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 an authority or city by which aid or a loan is given or made to the city; F. "project" means any acquisition, improvement, construction or undertaking of any kind authorized in the Municipal Parking Law; G. "ordinance" means ordinance or resolution which may be passed, adopted or entered into by the governing body of a city; 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 land when used for the purpose of increasing accommodations for parking motor vehicles; 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" includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein, including terms for years. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-4 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-4 - Creation of parking authorities.

Every city, in addition to other powers conferred by the Municipal Parking Law, shall have power and may by proper ordinance of its governing body: A. create as an agent of the city, an authority to be known as the "parking authority" of the city; B. delegate to said authority any or all of the powers conferred on the city by the Municipal Parking Law, except the power to issue bonds and purchase real property; and C. 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. Said ordinance shall provide that the authority shall file with the governing body of the city, a detailed report of all its transactions, including a statement of all revenues and expenditures at quarterly, semiannual or annual intervals as the governing body may prescribe. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-4, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-6 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-6 - Interested officers and employees.

It is declared to be against public policy for any officer or employee of a city to acquire any interest direct or indirect in any parking facilities or related properties or any commercial enterprise connected or incidental thereto, or to have any interest direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract related to or affecting parking facilities, unless said 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 may deem advisable. Any such contract or interest shall be void at the election of the governing body. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-6, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-7 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-7 - 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., § 14-51-7, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-8 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-8 - Lease of parking facilities; bids.

If a city desires to lease any project acquired by it under the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law, it shall do so by publication of notice and award to the highest responsible bidder. The governing body shall by ordinance prescribe the method of giving notice inviting bids. The notice shall distinctly and specifically describe the project and the facilities in connection therewith which are to be leased, the period of time for which the project is to be leased and the minimum rental to be paid under the lease. The governing body may reject any and all bids presented, and readvertise. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-8, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-9 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-9 - Power to issue bonds.

A city shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion to finance in whole or in part the cost of the preparation, acquisition, purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, extension or repair of any project hereunder and including the acquisition, installation and maintenance of parking meters. A city shall also have the power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it hereunder. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-9, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300. ANNOTATIONSAm. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 64 C.J.S. Municipal Corporations § 1902 et seq.
NM Stat § 3-50-10 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-10 - Liability on bonds.

Neither the governing body of a city nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on any bonds by reason of the issuance thereof hereunder. The bonds issued under the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law shall be payable solely from the sources provided in Section 3-50-11 NMSA 1978. Such bonds shall not be a debt, liability or general obligation of the city issuing them, and they shall so state on their face. The bonds shall not constitute a debt or indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory or charter debt limitation or restriction. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-10, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-11 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-11 - Types of bonds; sources from which payable.

In order to carry out the purposes of the Municipal Parking Law, a city may issue upon proper resolution, such types of bonds as it may determine, including bonds on which the principal and interest are payable: A. from the income and revenues of the projects financed with the proceeds of such bonds; or B. from such income and revenues, together with financial assistance from the state or federal government in aid of such projects; or C. from the income and revenues of certain designated parking facilities whether or not they were financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; or D. from any contributions, grants or other financial assistance from the state or federal government or from any other source; or E. from parking meter revenues of the city which may be appropriated by the governing body of the city; or F. by any combination of these methods. Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any parking meter revenues. The governing body of a city may pledge or allocate such parking meter revenues or special taxes for periods of years for the financing or operation of any project authorized by the Municipal Parking Law and the payment of principal and interest on all or any type of bond issued and outstanding pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law, until all of such bonds have been fully paid. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-11, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-12 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-12 - Form and sale of bonds.

Bonds of a city issued hereunder, shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in any one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding six percent per annum, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with or without premium, as such resolution, its trust indenture, or the bonds so issued may provide. The bonds shall be sold for cash at not less than par at either public or private sale. In case any of the officers of the city whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such officers had remained in office until such delivery. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding any bonds issued pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law shall be fully negotiable. In any suit, action or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any bond of a city or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the city to aid in financing a parking facility project to provide additional facilities for parking motor vehicles off the public streets shall be conclusively presumed to have been issued for a parking facility project of such character, and said project shall be conclusively deemed to have been planned, located and constructed in accordance with the purposes and provisions of the Municipal Parking Law. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-12, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-14 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-14 - Construction of bond provisions.

The Municipal Parking Law, without reference to other statutes of the state, shall constitute full authority for the authorization and issuance of bonds hereunder. No other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of bonds that provides for an election, requires an approval or in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts herein authorized to be done shall be construed as applying to any proceedings taken hereunder or acts done pursuant hereto. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-14, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-15 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-15 - Examination of bond issue by attorney general.

A city may submit to the attorney general of the state any bonds to be issued hereunder after all proceedings for the issuance of such bonds have been taken. Upon the submission of such proceedings to the attorney general, it shall be the duty of the attorney general to examine into and pass upon the validity of such bonds and the regularity of all proceedings in connection therewith. If such bonds and proceedings conform to the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law, and are otherwise regular in form, and if such bonds when delivered and paid for will constitute binding and legal obligations enforceable according to the terms thereof, the attorney general shall certify in substance that such bonds are issued in accordance with the constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-15, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
NM Stat § 3-50-16 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 3 - Municipalities|Article 50 - Municipal Parking|Section 3-50-16 - Remedies of an obligee.

An obligee of a city shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred upon such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee: A. by mandamus, suit, action or proceedings at law or in equity to compel said city and the officers, agents or employees thereof to perform each and every term, provision and covenant contained in any contract of said city with or for the benefit of such obligee and to require the carrying out of any or all such covenants and agreements of said city and the fulfillment of all duties imposed under said city by the Municipal Parking Law; and B. by suit, action or proceeding in equity, to enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful, or in violation of any of the rights of such obligee of said city. History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-16, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.