As used in the New Mexico Community Assistance Act:

A. "council" means the New Mexico community development council;

B. "project" means, except as limited by the state constitution, the purchase, construction, lease, gift, grant, reconstruction, improvement, option to purchase or other acquisition of educational, cultural, recreational, community, municipal, social service or other facilities by a political subdivision, including but not limited to publicly owned water systems, sewer systems, municipal utilities, roads, streets, highways, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, storm sewers, street lighting, traffic control devices, parking facilities, vocational training and rehabilitation facilities, airports, hospitals, nursing homes, publicly owned mental health, alcohol and drug abuse, child abuse and family counseling facilities, juvenile detention homes, swimming pools, parks, auditoriums, public buildings, libraries, fire and police stations, jails, waste disposal systems and sites, special assessment district improvements and all necessary real and personal property therefor, but does not include facilities for the public schools;

C. "community assistance program" means a program to assist political subdivisions with infrastructure development, which may include but is not limited to:

(1) a grant or loan of funds to the political subdivisions;

(2) gathering data about the political subdivisions;

(3) providing technical assistance to analyze the needs and seek solutions to problems related to infrastructure development in political subdivisions; and

(4) providing technical assistance in seeking funds from sources other than the council;

D. "division" means the local government division of the department of finance and administration; and

E. "political subdivision" means any county; incorporated city, town or village; drainage, conservancy, irrigation, water and sanitation or other district; mutual domestic association; public water cooperative association; or community ditch association.

History: 1953 Comp., § 14-64-3, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 299, § 3; 1981 (1st S.S.), ch. 11, § 1; 1984, ch. 5, § 3.

The 1984 amendment, effective July 1, 1984, substituted "development" for "assistance" in Subsection A, deleted "within a region affected by mineral and energy development to effectuate the purposes of the New Mexico Community Assistance Act" following "political subdivision" in Subsection B, substituted "with infrastructure development" for "impacted by mineral and energy development in New Mexico" in the introductory paragraph in Subsection C, inserted "or loan" and deleted "impacted" preceding "political" in Subsection C(1), substituted "infrastructure" for "mineral or energy" in Subsection C(3) and added Subsections D and E.