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A. No debt other than those specified in the preceding section shall be contracted by or on behalf of this state, unless authorized by law for some specified work or object; which law shall provide for an annual tax levy sufficient to pay the interest and to provide a sinking fund to pay the principal of such debt within fifty years from the time of the contracting thereof. No such law shall take effect until it shall have been submitted to the qualified electors of the state and have received a majority of all the votes cast thereon at a general election, such law shall be published in full in at least one newspaper in each county of the state, if one be published therein, once each week, for four successive weeks next preceding such election. No debt shall be so created if the total indebtedness of the state, exclusive of the debts of the territory, and the several counties thereof, assumed by the state, would thereby be made to exceed one percent of the assessed valuation of all the property subject to taxation in the state as shown by the preceding general assessment.
B. For the purposes of this section and Article 4, Section 29 of the constitution of New Mexico, a financing agreement entered into by the state for the leasing of a building or other real property with an option to purchase for a price that is reduced according to the payments made by the state pursuant to the financing agreement is not a debt if:
(1) there is no legal obligation for the state to continue the lease from year to year or to purchase the real property; and
(2) the agreement provides that the lease shall be terminated if sufficient appropriations are not available to meet the current lease payments.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - New Mexico Constitution Art. IX, § 8. Restrictions on state indebtedness - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nm/new-mexico-constitution/nm-const-art-ix-sect-8/
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