All publications of proceedings of boards of county commissioners, city and town councils, boards of trustees, boards of education or school directors and of all other officers of any county, municipality, district or other subdivision of the state, which are required by law to be made shall be published once only. In all counties, cities or towns, in which the publication [population] is not less than seventy-five percent English speaking, the publication of such notices in English shall be sufficient; that in all counties, cities and towns, in which the population is not less than seventy-five percent Spanish speaking, the publication of such notices in the Spanish language shall be sufficient; that in all counties, cities and towns, in which the publication [population] using either language is between twenty-five percent and seventy-five percent of the whole, such notices shall be published in both English and Spanish, provided, there be legal newspapers published in both languages in the county, city or town, by different publishers, otherwise, publication in either language shall be sufficient. And, provided further, that in case of question, or disagreement, as to the percentage of the population of any county, city or town, using either language, the district judge of the judicial district of which such county, city or town, is a part, shall determine such percentage upon such information as he may have, without special investigation in the matter, and his opinion and determination thereon shall be conclusive.
History: Laws 1912, ch. 49, § 6; Code 1915, § 4648; Laws 1919, ch. 72, § 1; 1923, ch. 148, § 1431; C.S. 1929, § 113-104; 1941 Comp., § 12-212; 1953 Comp., § 10-2-11.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Compiler's notes. — That part of this section which concerns the publication of school board proceedings was repealed by Laws 1923, ch. 148, § 1431. But see N.M. Const., art. IV, § 18, requiring that each section revised, amended or extended be set out in full.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 20 C.J.S. Counties §§ 73, 74; 62 C.J.S. Municipal Corporations § 409; 78 C.J.S. Schools and School Districts §§ 153, 154.
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