New Mexico Statutes
Article 16 - Technical and Vocational Institute Districts
Section 21-16-17 - Identification of electorate.

In any election relating to the approval or disapproval of a tax levy for the current operations and retirement of bonds of a technical and vocational institute, the persons qualified to vote are those qualified electors residing within an affected school district.
History: 1953 Comp., § 73-34-14, enacted by Laws 1964 (1st S.S.), ch. 12, § 2; 1998, ch. 61, § 11.
The 1998 amendment, effective March 9, 1998, deleted Subsection A, pertaining to any election held relating to creation of a technical and vocational institute district; deleted the designation "B"; deleted "held under this act" following "any election" and substituted "are those" for "shall be" following "qualified to vote".
Effect of constitutional amendment. — The effect of the amendment to N.M. Const., art. VIII, § 2, was to amend this section and former 21-16-12 NMSA 1978 by adding the additional qualification that those voting in district elections be those qualified electors who paid property taxes therein during the preceding year. 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-105.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 25 Am. Jur. 2d Elections §§ 183, 188; 68 Am. Jur. 2d Schools § 10.
Residence or domicile of student or teacher for purpose of voting, 98 A.L.R.2d 488, 44 A.L.R.3d 797.
29 C.J.S. Elections §§ 14 to 35.

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