Except for the first board, each board shall meet on the first business day next following the first day of the month that the term of office begins for members elected in the immediately preceding election at the office of the board within the authority. Each member of the board, before entering upon the member's official duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that the member will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of New Mexico and that the member will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of office to the best of the member's ability, which oath shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. Each director shall, before entering upon the director's official duties, give a bond to the authority in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) with good and sufficient surety, conditioned for the faithful performance of each of the duties of office, without fraud, deceit or oppression, and the accounting for all money and property coming into the director's hands, and the prompt and faithful payment of all money and the delivering of all property coming into the director's custody or control belonging to the authority of the director's successors in office. Premiums on all bonds provided for in this section shall be paid by the authority, and all such bonds shall be kept on file in the office of the secretary of state.
History: 1953 Comp., § 75-38-13, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 156, § 13; 2018, ch. 79, § 115.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, revised the schedule for the first meeting of the Las Cruces Arroyo Flood Control Authority following the election of new members to the board; and after "following the first day of", deleted "January I in each odd-numbered year" and added "the month that the term of office begins for members elected in the immediately preceding election".