Section 16-6-7 - [Annual appropriation; Albuquerque contribution.]

NM Stat § 16-6-7 (2019) (N/A)
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For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) is appropriated annually; provided, that the sum of five thousand dollars [($5,000)] herein appropriated shall be paid only upon condition that the citizens of Albuquerque shall annually raise, contribute and cause to be made available to the commission herein created a like sum of five thousand dollars [($5,000)].

History: Laws 1913, ch. 46, § 6; Code 1915, § 5010; C.S. 1929, § 127-106; 1941 Comp., § 48-2106; 1953 Comp., § 45-20-6.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Compiler's notes. — This section would appear to have been abrogated by Laws 1917, ch. 109, § 4, which read: "The appropriations herein made or heretofore made by any legislature of the state, except as to unexpended portions carried forward shall cease and determine on and after December 1, 1919."

The words "this article" were substituted by the 1915 compiler for "this act" and refer to the 1915 Code, ch. 100, §§ 5005 to 5017, compiled herein as 16-6-1 to 16-6-4, 16-6-6 to 16-6-9, 16-6-11, 16-6-12 NMSA 1978.

Appropriating state funds to state fair is constitutional for such fair is an instrumentality and under the control of the state. 1937 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 37-1560.