NEW MEXICO CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE IV
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Art. IV §1 | VESTING OF LEGISLATIVE POWER; LOCATION OF SESSIONS; REFERENDUM ON LEGISLATION
The people reserve the power to disapprove, suspend and annul any law enacted by the legislature, except general appropriation laws; laws providing for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety; for the payment of the public debt or interest thereon, or the creation or funding of the same, except as in this constitution otherwise provided; for the maintenance of the public schools or state institutions, and local or special laws. Petitions disapproving any law other than those above excepted, enacted at the last preceding session of the legislature, shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months prior to the next general election. Such petitions shall be signed by not less than ten per centum of the qualified electors of each of three-fourths of the counties and in the aggregate by not less than ten per centum of the qualified electors of the state, as shown by the total number of votes cast at the last preceding general election. The question of the approval or rejection of such law shall be submitted by the secretary of state to the electorate at the next general election; and if a majority of the legal votes cast thereon, and not less than forty per centum of the total number of legal votes cast at such general election, be cast for the rejection of such law, it shall be annulled and thereby repealed with the same effect as if the legislature had then repealed it, and such repeal shall revive any law repealed by the act so annulled; otherwise, it shall remain in force unless subsequently repealed by the legislature. If such petition or petitions be signed by not less than twenty-five per centum of the qualified electors under each of the foregoing conditions, and be filed with the secretary of state within ninety days after the adjournment of the session of the legislature at which such law was enacted, the operation thereof shall be thereupon suspended and the question of its approval or rejection shall be likewise submitted to a vote at the next ensuing general election. If a majority of the votes cast thereon and not less than forty per centum of the total number of votes cast at such general election be cast for its rejection, it shall be thereby annulled; otherwise, it shall go into effect upon publication of the certificate of the secretary of state declaring the result of the vote thereon. It shall be a felony for any person to sign any such petition with any name other than his own, or to sign his name more than once for the same measure, or to sign such petition when he is not a qualified elector in the county specified in such petition; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the writing thereon of the name of any person who cannot write, and who signs the same with his mark. The legislature shall enact laws necessary for the effective exercise of the power hereby reserved.
Art. IV §2 | POWERS GENERALLY; DISASTER EMERGENCY PROCEDURE
Art. IV §3 | NUMBER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS; SINGLE-MEMBER DISTRICTS; REAPPORTIONMENT
B. The senate shall be composed of no more than forty-two members elected from single-member districts.
C. The house of representatives shall be composed of no more than seventy members elected from single-member districts.
D. Once following publication of the official report of each federal decennial census hereafter conducted, the legislature may by statute reapportion its membership.
Art. IV §4 | TERMS OF OFFICE OF MEMBERS; TIME OF ELECTION; FILLING OF VACANCIES
Such legislative appointments as provided in this section shall be for a term ending on December 31, subsequent to the next succeeding general election.
Art. IV §5 | TIME AND LENGTH OF SESSIONS; ITEMS CONSIDERED IN EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS
B. Every regular session of the legislature convening during an even-numbered year shall consider only the following:
(2) bills drawn pursuant to special messages of the governor; and
(3) bills of the last previous regular session vetoed by the governor.
Art. IV §6 | SPECIAL SESSION; EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
Art. IV §7 | JUDGE OF ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS; QUORUM
Art. IV §8 | CALL TO ORDER; PRESIDING OFFICERS
Art. IV §9 | SELECTION AND COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Art. IV §10 | COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS
B. per diem expense and mileage at the same rates as provided in Subsection A of this section for service at meetings required by legislative committees established by the legislature to meet in the interim between sessions; and
C. no other compensation, perquisite or allowance.
Art. IV §11 | RULES OF PROCEDURE; CONTEMPT OR DISORDERLY CONDUCT; EXPULSION OF MEMBERS
Art. IV §12 | PUBLIC SESSIONS; JOURNALS
Art. IV §13 | PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES
Art. IV §14 | ADJOURNMENT
Art. IV §15 | LAWS TO BE PASSED BY BILL; ALTERATION OF BILL; ENACTING CLAUSE; PRINTING AND READING OF BILL
Art. IV §16 | SUBJECT OF BILL IN TITLE; APPROPRIATION BILLS
Art. IV §17 | PASSAGE OF BILLS
Art. IV §18 | AMENDMENT OF STATUTES
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this constitution, the legislature, in any law imposing a tax or taxes, may define the amount on, in respect to or by which such tax or taxes are imposed or measured, by reference to any provision of the laws of the United States as the same may be or become effective at any time or from time to time, and may prescribe exceptions or modifications to any such provision.
Art. IV §19 | INTRODUCTION OF BILLS
Art. IV §20 | ENROLLMENT, ENGROSSMENT AND SIGNING OF BILLS
Art. IV §21 | ALTERATION OR THEFT OF BILL
Art. IV §22 | GOVERNOR’S APPROVAL OR VETO OF BILLS
Art. IV §23 | EFFECTIVE DATE OF LAW; EMERGENCY ACTS
Art. IV §24 | LOCAL OR SPECIAL LAWS
the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, police magistrates and constables;
the practice in courts of justice; the rate of interest on money;
the punishment for crimes and misdemeanors;
the assessment or collection of taxes or extending the time of collection thereof;
the summoning and impaneling of jurors;
the management of public schools;
the sale or mortgaging of real estate of minors or others under disability;
the change of venue in civil or criminal cases.
laying out, opening, altering or working roads or highways, except as to state roads extending into more than one county, and military roads;
vacating roads, town plats, streets, alleys or public grounds;
locating or changing county seats, or changing county lines, except in creating new counties;
incorporating cities, towns or villages, or changing or amending the charter of any city, town or village;
the opening or conducting of any election or designating the place of voting;
declaring any person of age;
chartering or licensing ferries, toll bridges, toll roads, banks, insurance companies or loan and trust companies;
remitting fines, penalties, forfeitures or taxes; or
refunding money paid into the state treasury, or relinquishing, extending or extinguishing, in whole or in part, any indebtedness or liability of any person or corporation, to the state or any municipality therein;
creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentages or allowances of public officers;
changing the laws of descent;
granting to any corporation, association or individual the right to lay down railroad tracks or any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise, or amending existing charters for such purpose;
changing the rules of evidence in any trial or inquiry;
the limitation of actions;
giving effect to any informal or invalid deed, will or other instrument;
exempting property from taxation;
restoring to citizenship any person convicted of an infamous crime;
the adoption or legitimizing of children;
changing the name of persons or places; and
the creation, extension or impairment of liens.
Art. IV §25 | VALIDATING UNAUTHORIZED OFFICIAL ACTS; FINES AGAINST OFFICERS, ETC
Art. IV §26 | GRANT OF FRANCHISE OR PRIVILEGE
Art. IV §27 | EXTRA OR INCREASED COMPENSATION FOR OFFICERS, CONTRACTORS, ETC
Art. IV §28 | APPOINTMENT OF PRESENT AND FORMER LEGISLATORS TO OFFICE; INTEREST OF LEGISLATORS IN CONTRACTS
Art. IV §29 | LAWS CREATING DEBTS
Art. IV §30 | PAYMENTS FROM TREASURY TO BE UPON APPROPRIATIONS AND WARRANT
Art. IV §31 | APPROPRIATIONS FOR CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL, ETC, PURPOSES
Art. IV §32 | REMISSION OF DEBTS DUE STATE OR MUNICIPALITIES
Art. IV §33 | PROSECUTIONS UNDER REPEALED LAWS
Art. IV §34 | CHANGE OF RIGHTS OR PROCEDURE IN PENDING CASES
Art. IV §35 | POWER AND PROCEDURE FOR IMPEACHMENT AND TRIAL
Art. IV §36 | OFFICERS SUBJECT TO IMPEACHMENT
Art. IV §37 | RAILROAD PASSES
Art. IV §38 | MONOPOLIES
Art. IV §39 | BRIBERY AND SOLICITATION DEFINED
Art. IV §40 | PENALTY FOR BRIBERY
Art. IV §41 | COMPELLING TESTIMONY IN BRIBERY CASES
Art. IV §42 | HEARINGS ON CONFIRMATION OF GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS
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