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Section 3-21-2.1 - Certain municipalities; changing the zoning or use of certain areas; election allowed.

NM Stat § 3-21-2.1 (2019) (N/A)
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A municipality that has a population of one thousand five hundred or less at the last federal decennial census and that is partially bordered, at the time of that census, by federal land managed by the United States forest service, may change the zoning or use of any land acquired by first submitting the question to the voters at a general election or at a special election called for that purpose if the acquired land:

A. was acquired by the municipality from or with the permission of the United States forest service;

B. lies adjacent to the municipality's geographical boundary; and

C. is zoned or used at the time of acquisition for recreation, school sites, greenbelt or buffer land.

History: Laws 1997, ch. 142, § 1.

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