If insufficient money is received from the operation of the property of the disincorporated municipality to pay the obligations in the order designated in Section 3-4-8 NMSA 1978, the board of county commissioners shall levy a tax on all taxable property within the boundary of the municipality at the time of its disincorporation. This tax shall be sufficient to pay the obligations incurred in the operation of the property of the municipality and to comply with the terms and conditions of the evidences of the bonded indebtedness. The board of county commissioners shall, without charge, perform the duties of the governing body of the disincorporated municipality to satisfy the terms of the bonds, obligations or contracts of the disincorporated municipality.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-4-9, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.
Law reviews. — For article, "Indian Sovereignty and the Tribal Right to Charter a Municipality for Non-Indians: A New Perspective for Jurisdiction on Indian Land," see 7 N.M.L. Rev. 153 (1977).
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