Written nominations of any candidate as director may be filed with the proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act [Chapter 1, Article 22 NMSA 1978]. Each nomination of any candidate shall be signed by not less than fifty qualified electors, regardless of whether or not nominated, shall designate the name of the candidates nominated and shall recite that the subscribers are qualified electors and that the candidates designated are qualified electors of the authority. No written nomination may designate more qualified electors as candidates than there are vacancies. No qualified elector may nominate more than one candidate for any vacancy.

History: Laws 1990, ch. 14, § 11; 1991, ch. 60, § 4; 2018, ch. 79, § 130.

The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, provided that nominations for candidates as members of the southern Sandoval county arroyo flood control board be filed in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act, and made technical and conforming changes; deleted "Not later than forty-five days before a proposal to incur debt is first submitted to the qualified electors or at the first general election next following the effective date of the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Act, whichever occurs first", after "filed with the", deleted "secretary of the board" and added "proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act", and deleted the last two sentences of the section, which related to placement of names on the ballot and the filing of nominations.

The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted "qualified electors" for "taxpaying electors" throughout the section.