§ 33-1A-1 NMSA 1978

The facilities management division of the general services department is authorized to lease a portion of the real property of the state on which a correctional facility is located, but not to include Grants, New Mexico, for a period not to exceed twenty-five years, to a private entity in consideration for the construction on the real property of low-rent housing units for correctional officers of the corrections department, their families and such other corrections department personnel or other state employees as the secretary of corrections may designate; provided the low-rent housing units are rented only to state employees.