The purpose of this act [3-57-1 to 3-57-9 NMSA 1978] is to provide for the orderly extension of municipal boundaries, to control the formation of new local public bodies, and to minimize the overlapping of a [sic] local governmental services, within class A counties.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-58-2, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 248, § 2.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.