A. The board of trustees may fix in the land grant-merced bylaws and pay to its members a salary not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) to any member in one month. The salary as fixed shall be in full as compensation for the duties performed by the board of trustees or the individual members within the exterior boundaries of the land grant-merced and for attendance at regularly scheduled meetings. The secretary of the board of trustees may be allowed a salary not to exceed two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225) in one month.
B. Board of trustees members may be authorized per diem and mileage pursuant to the Per Diem and Mileage Act [10-8-1 to 10-8-8 NMSA 1978].
C. The board of trustees and the treasurer shall keep permanent and legible records capable of audit, and no money or funds shall be paid by the board of trustees or by any person authorized to expend money unless the expenditure is approved by a majority of the board of trustees and is in the form of a written check or in such a form that the date, amount and payee of the transaction are automatically recorded; and the payment is supported by an invoice or receipt.
History: Laws 2007, ch. 145, § 14; 2015, ch. 40, § 4.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, placed certain requirements on the expenditure of funds by the board of trustees of a land grant-merced; in Subsection C, after "expend money", deleted "except by written check drawn upon vouchers" and added the remainder of the sentence.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Section 49-4-1 - Chilili land grant-merced; ratification of partitions; governance.
Section 49-4-4 - Management of grant.
Section 49-4-4.1 - Definitions.
Section 49-4-5 - Board of trustees; management of grant; powers.
Section 49-4-6 - Board of trustees; qualifications.
Section 49-4-7 - Election of members of board of trustees; voters' qualifications; registration.
Section 49-4-8 - Election; votes required; canvassing votes.
Section 49-4-9 - Organization of board; bonds; vacancies.
Section 49-4-12 - Sale or mortgage of common lands; restrictions.
Section 49-4-13 - Meetings to be public; annual report.
Section 49-4-15 - Salaries of trustees; records; expenditures.
Section 49-4-16 - Protection of common lands; delinquency; forfeiture.
Section 49-4-17 - Trespass on common lands or waters; injunctions.
Section 49-4-18 - Process; how served on board.
Section 49-4-19 - Registration.
Section 49-4-20 - Failure of trustee to perform duties; penalty.