The purpose of the Precinct Boundary Adjustment Act [1-3-10 to 1-3-14 NMSA 1978] is to comply with the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of Subsection (c) of Section 141 of Title 13 of the United States Code in order to obtain an enumeration of the populations of election precincts by the bureau of the census in the federal decennial census and in order to provide such enumeration data to the New Mexico legislature for purposes of legislative reapportionment.
History: Laws 1983, ch. 223, § 2; 1995, ch. 126, § 4.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1995 amendment, effective June 16, 1995, deleted "New Mexico" preceding "election" and deleted "1990" preceding "federal decennial census".