A. The following local governmental entities are authorized to impose convention center fees:

(1) a qualified municipality if the governing body of the qualified municipality has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee; and

(2) a county in which a qualified municipality is located, provided that:

(a) a qualified municipality within the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;

(b) the board of county commissioners of the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;

(c) the qualified municipality and the county have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act [11-1-1 to 11-1-7 NMSA 1978] to collect the revenue from the convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required in the Convention Center Financing Act; and

(d) the fee shall only apply to lodging facilities located within twenty miles of the corporate limits of the qualified municipality.

B. Two qualified municipalities may enter into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act to collect revenue from a convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required by the Convention Center Financing Act if the municipalities:

(1) are located in the same county within twenty miles of the corporate limits of each other; and

(2) have each enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee.

History: Laws 2003, ch. 87, § 3; 2013, ch. 190, § 2.

The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, expanded the scope of the Convention Center Financing Act to civic centers and to all municipalities; deleted former Subsection C, which provided for the imposition of convention center fees by additional municipalities within twenty miles of a qualified municipality; and added Subsection B.