The purpose of this act [ 3-57-1 to 3-57-9 NMSA 1978] is to provide for the orderly extension of municipal boundaries, to control the formation of new local public bodies, and to minimize the overlapping of a [sic] local governmental services, within class A counties.
§ 3-57-2 NMSA 1978
Purpose of act
Known as the Metropolitan Boundary Act
The act spans §§ 3–3 (9 sections).
1953 Comp., § 14-58-2, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 248, § 2.
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