A. Any public agency receiving a request from the board of county commissioners for an opinion and any Indian nation, tribe or pueblo that chooses to submit an opinion pursuant to Section 47-6-11 NMSA 1978 shall furnish the board with the requested opinion within the time period set forth in Subsection A of Section 47-6-22 NMSA 1978. The board of county commissioners shall furnish the appropriate public agency and Indian nation, tribe or pueblo with all relevant information that the board has received from the subdivider on the subject for which the board is seeking an opinion. If the public agency or Indian nation, tribe or pueblo does not have sufficient information upon which to base an opinion, the public agency or Indian nation, tribe or pueblo shall notify the board of this fact.
B. All opinion requests mailed by the board of county commissioners shall be by certified mail, return receipt requested. Boards of county commissioners delivering opinion requests shall obtain receipts showing the day the opinion request was received by the particular public agency or Indian nation, tribe or pueblo.
History: 1953 Comp., § 70-5-20, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 348, § 20; 1995, ch. 212, § 21; 2009, ch. 65, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, in Subsection A, added "and any Indian nation, tribe or pueblo that chooses to submit an opinion"; and in Subsections A and B, added "and Indian nation, tribe or pueblo".
The 1995 amendment, effective July 1, 1996, substituted "Public" for "State" in the section heading and throughout the section and substituted the language beginning "pursuant to" for "on water, water quality, liquid or solid waste disposal adequacy, terrain management or highway access shall furnish the board with the requested opinion" at the end of the first sentence in Subsection A.