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Section 5-8-16 - Accounting for fees and interest.

NM Stat § 5-8-16 (2019) (N/A)
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A. The order, ordinance or resolution imposing an impact fee shall provide that all money collected through the adoption of an impact fee shall be maintained in separate interest-bearing accounts clearly identifying the payor and the category of capital improvements or facility expansions within the service area for which the fee was adopted.

B. Interest earned on impact fees shall become part of the account on which it is earned and shall be subject to all restrictions placed on the use of impact fees under the Development Fees Act.

C. Money from impact fees may be spent only for the purposes for which the impact fee was imposed as shown by the capital improvements plan and as authorized by the Development Fees Act.

D. The records of the accounts into which impact fees are deposited shall be open for public inspection and copying during ordinary business hours of the municipality or county.

E. As part of its annual audit process, a municipality or county shall prepare an annual report describing the amount of any impact fees collected, encumbered and used during the preceding year by category of capital improvement and service area identified as provided in Subsection A of this section.

History: Laws 1993, ch. 122, § 16.

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Section 5-8-16 - Accounting for fees and interest.