A. By the last day of each month, the department shall prepare and certify a report to the secretary of finance and administration. The report shall be for the preceding month and shall show the amount of copper production ad valorem tax distributed to the copper production tax fund, the amount due the state and each taxing district imposing a tax and any other information required by the secretary of finance and administration. The secretary of finance and administration shall forthwith remit the appropriate amounts from the copper production tax fund to the state treasurer and the county treasurers who shall make the appropriate distribution, except as provided in Subsection B of this section.
B. If the board of county commissioners notifies the secretary of finance and administration that the county elects not to distribute the proceeds of the copper production ad valorem tax due to the municipalities and school districts in the county, the secretary of finance and administration shall pay amounts due directly to municipalities and school districts within the county.
History: 1978 Comp., § 7-39-10, enacted by Laws 1990, ch. 125, § 17.
Nonseverability. — Laws 1990, ch. 125, § 19 provides that the provisions of the Copper Production Ad Valorem Tax Act [Chapter 7, Article 39 NMSA 1978] and the corresponding amendments made in that act to the Property Tax Code [Chapter 7, Articles 35 to 38 NMSA 1978] are not severable.
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