Three regional housing authorities are created for the state of New Mexico as follows:
A. the northern regional housing authority that shall include Cibola, Taos, McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Mora, Los Alamos, Colfax and Sandoval counties;
B. the eastern regional housing authority that shall include Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Guadalupe, Harding, Lea, Lincoln, Otero, Quay, Roosevelt, Union and Curry counties; and
C. the western regional housing authority that shall include Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra, Socorro, Catron, Torrance and Valencia counties.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 132, § 4; 2009, ch. 48, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — Laws 1995, ch. 191, § 25, effective June 16, 1995, repealed Laws 1994, ch. 132, § 30, which provided for the repeal of this section on July 1, 1995.
The 2009 amendment, effective March 31, 2009, at the beginning of the first sentence, changed "Seven" to "Three"; deleted the former second sentence, which provided that the areas of the seven regional housing authorities are coextensive with the boundaries of the seven housing regions; deleted former Subsections A through G, which listed the counties in each housing region; and added Subsections A through C.