There is established within the boundaries of a class A county with a population of more than two hundred fifty thousand persons in the last federal decennial census the "metropolitan court". The name of the metropolitan district is the same as the name of the county in which it is located.
History: Laws 1979, ch. 346, § 1; 2010, ch. 99, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2010 amendment, effective May 19, 2010, changed "two hundred thousand persons" to "two hundred fifty thousand persons".
Law reviews. — For article, "Separation of Powers and the Judicial Rule-Making Power in New Mexico: The Need for Prudential Restraints," see 15 N.M.L. Rev. 407 (1985).