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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 1 — Elections · Article 1 — Definitions And General Provisions

1-1-20. Major fractions.

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In any place in the Election Code [Chapter 1 NMSA 1978] requiring counting or computation of numbers, any fraction or decimal greater than one-half of a whole number shall be counted as a whole number.
History: 1978 Comp., § 1-1-20, enacted by Laws 1979, ch. 378, § 2.
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