No municipality may annex territory within the boundary of another municipality or territory within a class A county with a population of more than three hundred thousand persons unless approved by the board of county commissioners for that county.
§ 3-7-3 NMSA 1978
Limitation on annexation
1953 Comp., § 14-7-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 2003, ch. 438, § 1.
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