The funds provided through the special county hospital gross receipts tax shall be administered by the governing body of the county. In a county described in Paragraph (1) of Subsection C of Section 7-20E-13 NMSA 1978, the funds shall be disbursed by the county treasurer to a hospital within the county, subject to the approval by the governing body of a budget or plan for use of the funds submitted by that hospital's governing board.
History: Laws 1987, ch. 45, § 8; 1978 Comp., § 7-20-26, amended and recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 7-20E-14 by Laws 1993, ch. 354, § 14; 2000, ch. 68, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2000 amendment, effective March 6, 2000, divided the section into two sentences and added the internal reference at the beginning of the second sentence.
The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, renumbered this section, rewrote the section heading which read "Distribution", and inserted "of the county" near the middle of the section.