None of the parts or provisions of this article or any section thereof shall apply or be construed to be in force or effect in any of the following counties, viz.: Dona Ana, Grant, Otero, Luna, Lincoln, Chaves, Eddy, Santa Fe, Guadalupe, Colfax, Union, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Quay, McKinley, Roosevelt, as the same existed on the 11th day of March, 1903.
History: Laws 1903, ch. 32, § 12; Code 1915, § 5797; Laws 1917, ch. 68, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 151-514; 1941 Comp., § 77-1510; 1953 Comp., § 75-15-10.
ANNOTATIONSCompiler's notes. — The words "this article" were substituted for "this act" by the 1915 Code; the reference is to Chapter CXIV, Article II, §§ 5787 to 5791 of the 1915 Code, now compiled as 73-3-1 to 73-3-5 and 73-3-7 to 73-3-11 NMSA 1978.
The 1917 amendment excluded the counties of San Miguel, Mora, Taos and Valencia from the list.