A. In all elections held under the College District Tax Act, the board shall issue a resolution calling for an election. The resolution shall be filed with each county clerk in the college district.
B. All elections held under the College District Tax Act shall be conducted and canvassed pursuant to the provisions of the Local Election Act [Chapter 1, Article 22 NMSA 1978].
C. Any person or corporation may institute, in the district court of any county in which the college district affected lies, an action or suit to contest the validity of any proceedings held under the College District Tax Act, but no such suit or action shall be maintained unless it is instituted within ten days after the issuance by the proper official of a certificate or notification of the results of the election.
History: Laws 1995, ch. 224, § 16; 2019, ch. 212, § 215.
The 2019 amendment, effective April 3, 2019, revised certain notice provisions, and provided that all elections held under the College District Tax Act shall be conducted pursuant to the Local Election Act; in Subsection A, deleted the last sentence of the subsection, which provided "The board shall publish the resolution in a newspaper of general circulation in the college district at least once a week for three consecutive weeks, the last insertion to be not less than thirty days prior to the proposed election."; and in Subsection B, after "conducted and canvassed" deleted "in the same manner as municipal school elections, unless otherwise specifically provided in the College District Tax Act" and added "pursuant to the provisions of the Local Election Act".
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