Beginning September 1, 2011, an annual distribution pursuant to Section 7-1-6.1 NMSA 1978 shall be made to a county that has imposed and the electors have approved a county business retention gross receipts tax. The distribution shall be in an amount equal to the balance of the net receipts attributable to that tax collected in the prior fiscal year, exclusive of penalties and interest, after the state has deducted an amount for deposit to the general fund equal to the reduction in gaming tax revenue from the gaming operator licensees that are racetracks located in that county resulting from county gaming tax credits allowed in the immediately prior fiscal year for gaming operator licensees located in that county. The total receipts from any county transferred to the general fund in any fiscal year shall not exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) or the total amount of the decrease in gaming tax revenue calculated for the county pursuant to this section, whichever is less.
History: Laws 2010, ch. 31, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSEmergency clauses. — Laws 2010, ch. 31, § 4 contained an emergency clause and was approved March 3, 2010.