The boards of county commissioners of counties composing local option districts are empowered, by resolution duly adopted, on or before the first day of June of each year to impose an annual, nonprohibitive license tax upon the privileges of persons holding state licenses under the provisions of the Liquor Control Act [60-3A-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.] to operate within such counties, outside of the municipalities that are local option districts, as retailers, dispensers, canopy licensees, restaurant licensees or club licensees. The amount of the license tax, which shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250), and the dates and manner of the payment shall be fixed by the resolution imposing the tax; provided, that in case the county permits the payment in installments, no bond shall be required to secure the payment of the deferred installments, but the remedy for the collection shall be that provided in Section 7-24-3 NMSA 1978.
History: Laws 1939, ch. 236, § 1104; 1941 Comp., § 61-403; 1953 Comp., § 46-4-3; Laws 1981, ch. 39, § 125; 1994, ch. 46, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1994 amendment, effective July 1, 1994, in the first sentence, deleted "hereby" preceding "empowered", and substituted "the Liquor Control Act" for "this act" and "that are local option districts" for "contemplated by Section 60-6-1 NMSA 1978"; and, in the second sentence, substituted "the license tax, which shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250)" for "such license tax, which shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000)" and "the tax" for "the same", and made a series of minor stylistic changes throughout.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 48 C.J.S. Intoxicating Liquors § 91.