Every city, in addition to other powers conferred by the Municipal Parking Law, shall have power, and it is hereby authorized:

A. to purchase and install, maintain, regulate, operate and manage parking meters and parking spaces upon the streets of said city;

B. to purchase, acquire, lease, rent, construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, repair, maintain, operate and manage parking facilities for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets together with public rights-of-way necessary or convenient therefor, including the leasing of the operation thereof, and including the leasing of a portion of the space at any such parking facility to private operators for commercial purposes, such as gasoline service stations, which are directly related to the operation of such parking facility when in the judgment of the governing body it is convenient or necessary to permit such leasing in order to utilize the balance of the property as a parking facility;

C. to purchase, acquire by gift, grant, bequest or devise or otherwise, any real or personal property or any interest therein, together with the improvements thereon, to be used as parking facilities or incident thereto;

D. to insure or provide for the insurance of any parking facility established by the city against such risks and hazards as the city may deem advisable;

E. to arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works or facilities for, or in connection with, a parking facility project;

F. to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it deems necessary for its purposes under the Municipal Parking Law after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that its acquisition is necessary for such purposes. This power shall be exercised in the manner provided by any applicable statutory provisions and laws of the state of New Mexico and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. Title to property so acquired shall be taken in the name of the city; provided, however, that no existing parking facility shall be acquired by the exercise of the power of eminent domain unless the project to be furnished or constructed by the city will encompass a parking facility not less than three times the area of the existing parking facility and unless the owner or lessor of the existing parking facility shall refuse to furnish or construct a parking facility not less than three times its present area;

G. to sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any real or personal property, or any interest therein acquired for the purpose of the Municipal Parking Law;

H. to do any act in order to furnish motor vehicle parking space and to establish parking facilities for motor vehicles parked within the city and to handle and care for any such vehicles parked within any parking space owned, controlled or operated by the city;

I. to receive, control, invest, order the expenditure of, any and all moneys and funds pertaining to parking facilities and parking meters, or related properties;

J. to exercise all or any part or combination of the powers herein granted; and

K. to do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary, convenient, desirable or appropriate to carry out the provisions of the Municipal Parking Law.

History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-5, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.

Cross references. — For condemnation proceedings, see 42A-1-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 7A Am. Jur. 2d Automobiles and Highway Traffic § 281.

Installation or operation of parking meters as within governmental immunity from tort liability, 33 A.L.R.2d 761.

Permissible use of funds from parking meters, 83 A.L.R.2d 625.

Pledging parking-meter revenues as unlawful relinquishment of governmental power, 83 A.L.R.2d 649.