A. With respect to any period for which the rate of the tax imposed by Section 7-30-4 NMSA 1978 is nineteen-hundredths percent, a distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.20 NMSA 1978 shall be made to the oil and gas reclamation fund in an amount equal to two-nineteenths of the net receipts attributable to the tax imposed under the Oil and Gas Conservation Tax Act [Chapter 7, Article 30 NMSA 1978].
B. With respect to any period for which the total rate of the tax imposed on oil by Section 7-30-4 NMSA 1978 is twenty-four hundredths percent, a distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.20 NMSA 1978 shall be made to the oil and gas reclamation fund in an amount equal to nineteen and seven-tenths percent of the net receipts attributable to the tax imposed under the Oil and Gas Conservation Tax Act.
History: 1978 Comp., § 7-1-6.21, enacted by Laws 1985, ch. 65, § 7; 1989, ch. 130, § 1; 1991, ch. 9, § 16; 2003, ch. 433, § 1; 2010, ch. 98, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2010 amendment, effective May 19, 2010, in Subsection A, after "reclamation fund in", deleted "the" and added "an"; in Subsection B, after "for which the", added "total"; after "tax imposed", added "on oil"; after "Section 7-30-4 NMSA 1978 is", deleted "eighteen hundredths" and added "twenty-four hundredths"; after "reclamation fund in", deleted "the" and added "an"; and after "amount equal to", deleted "one-eighteenth" and added "nineteen and seven-tenths percent".
The 2003 amendment, effective July 1, 2003, inserted the Subsection A designation; substituted "two-nineteenths" for "one-nineteenth" in the second percentage of Subsection A; and added Subsection B.
The 1991 amendment, effective July 1, 1991, substituted "and Gas Reclamation" for "Conservation" in the catchline; deleted former Subsection A, relating to a distribution pursuant to 7-1-6.20 NMSA 1978 to the oil conservation fund; and deleted the subsection designation "B".
The 1989 amendment, effective June 16, 1989, designated the formerly undesignated provisions as Subsection A, while inserting therein "the difference between" and adding all of the language following "Act", and added Subsection B.