Written nominations of any candidate as director may be filed with the proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act [Chapter 1, Article 22 NMSA 1978]. Each nomination of any candidate shall be signed by not less than fifty qualified electors regardless of whether or not nominated, shall designate the name of the candidates and shall recite that the subscribers are qualified electors and that the candidates designated are qualified electors of the authority. No written nomination may designate more qualified electors as candidates than there are vacancies. No qualified elector may nominate more than one candidate for any vacancy.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-38-11, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 156, § 11; 2018, ch. 79, § 114.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, provided that nominations of candidates for director of the Las Cruces Arroyo Flood Control Authority may be filed in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act, removed outdated language, and made technical and conforming changes; and deleted "Not later than forty-five days before a proposal to incur debt shall be first submitted to the taxpaying electors or at the first general election next following the effective date of the Las Cruces Arroyo Flood Control Act, which ever occurs first", after "may be filed with the", deleted "secretary of the board" and added "proper filing officer in accordance with the provisions of the Local Election Act", replaced "taxpaying" with "qualified" preceding "electors throughout the section, and deleted the last sentence, which related to placement of candidates names on the ballot.