A. All meetings of the board of trustees shall be held in accordance with the Open Meetings Act [Chapter 10, Article 15 NMSA 1978]. Executive sessions shall not be held except in accordance with the Open Meetings Act. All heirs of the land grant-merced shall have the right to be present at all times when the board is in session and to be heard on all matters in which they may be interested.
B. The board of trustees shall annually make public a report of all its transactions for that year. The report shall include agendas, minutes, actions taken and all financial transactions. The report shall be maintained in a public place and available for public review; for the purposes of this subsection, filing the report with the land grant council to be kept with the New Mexico community land grant registry shall be considered filing the report in a public place.
C. The secretary of the board shall reduce to writing, in a book kept for that purpose, minutes of the business transacted at each meeting of the board.
History: Laws 1907, ch. 42, § 12; Code 1915, § 810; C.S. 1929, § 29-112; Laws 1933, ch. 164, § 4; 1941 Comp., § 9-112; 1953 Comp., § 8-1-12; 2004, ch. 124, § 13; 2014, ch. 72, § 1.
The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, allowed the board of trustees of the land grant-merced to file annual reports with the New Mexico land grant registry; and in Subsection B, in the third sentence, after "public review", added the remainder of the sentence.
The 2004 amendment, effective July 1, 2004, added the requirement that meetings be held in accordance with the Open Meetings Act, added subsection designations, changed "persons residing within the limits of the grant" to "all heirs of the land grant-merced", and added the second sentence of Subsection B, and added Subsection C.
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