Any municipality having a population of three thousand or more persons according to the last federal census or any other official census may be organized and governed as a commission-manager municipality if the qualified electors of the municipality elect to be governed under the commission-manager form of government. If the qualified electors of the municipality do not elect to be governed under the commission-manager form of government, the municipality shall be governed under the form of government in existence on the day the election rejecting the commission-manager form was held.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-13-1, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1989, ch. 61, § 1; 1991, ch. 20, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For appointment of manager by governing body of municipality, see 3-13-3 NMSA 1978.
The 1991 amendment, effective June 14, 1991, substituted "three thousand" for "one thousand" in the catchline and in the first sentence.
The 1989 amendment, effective June 16, 1989, substituted "one thousand" for "3,000" in the catchline and near the beginning of the first sentence.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 56 Am. Jur. 2d Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions §§ 51, 183.
62 C.J.S. Municipal Corporations §§ 81 to 84.