A. Designations and boundaries used in the Public Regulation Commission Apportionment Act are those precinct designations and boundaries established pursuant to the Precinct Boundary Adjustment Act [1-3-10 to 1-3-14 NMSA 1978] and revised and approved by the secretary of state as of August 31, 2001.
B. A board of county commissioners shall not create any precinct that lies in more than one public regulation commission district and shall not divide any precinct so that the divided parts of the precinct are situated in two or more public regulation commission districts. Votes cast in a statewide election from precincts created or divided in violation of this subsection are invalid and shall not be counted or canvassed.
History: Laws 1997, ch. 262, § 5; 2001 (1st S.S.), ch. 3, § 2.
The 2001 (1st S.S.) amendment, effective October 4, 2001, substituted "August 31, 2001" for "November 5, 1996" at the end of Subsection A; in Subsection B, substituted "and shall not" for "nor shall any board of county commissioners" in the first sentence and substituted "a" for "any general, primary or other" in the second sentence preceding "statewide election".
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