Section 5-13-3 - Authorized local governmental entities.
5-13-3. Authorized local governmental entities.
The following local governmental entities are authorized to impose convention center fees:
A. a qualified municipality if the governing body of the qualified municipality has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;
B. a county in which a qualified municipality is located, provided that:
(1) a qualified municipality within the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;
(2) the board of county commissioners of the county has enacted an ordinance to impose a convention center fee;
(3) the qualified municipality and the county have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act [11-1-1 NMSA 1978] to collect the revenue from the convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required in the Convention Center Financing Act [5-13-1 NMSA 1978]; and
(4) the fee shall only apply to lodging facilities located within twenty miles of the corporate limits of the qualified municipality; and
C. an additional municipality located within twenty miles of the corporate limits of a qualified municipality in the same county in which that qualified municipality is located, provided that:
(1) the qualified municipality has enacted an ordinance imposing a convention center fee;
(2) the additional municipality has enacted an ordinance imposing a convention center fee; and
(3) the qualified municipality and the additional municipality have entered into a joint powers agreement pursuant to the Joint Powers Agreements Act to collect the revenue from the convention center fee and to expend the revenue as required by the Convention Center Financing Act.