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Code · New Mexico · Chapter 3 — Municipalities · Article 19 — Planning And Platting

3-19-5. Planning and platting jurisdiction.

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A. Each municipality shall have planning and platting jurisdiction within its municipal boundary. Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, the planning and platting jurisdiction of a municipality:
(1)having a population of twenty-five thousand or more persons includes all territory within five miles of its boundary and not within the boundary of another municipality; or
(2)having a population of fewer than twenty-five thousand persons includes all territory within three miles of its boundary and not within the boundary of another municipality.
B. A municipality located in a class A county with a population of more than three hundred thousand persons shall not have planning and platting jurisdiction in the unincorporated area of the county.
C. If territory not lying within the boundary of a municipality is within the planning and platting jurisdiction of more than one municipality, the planning and platting jurisdiction of each municipality shall terminate equidistant from the boundary of each municipality unless one municipality has a population of fewer than two thousand five hundred persons and another municipality has a population of more than two thousand five hundred persons according to the most recent census. Then the planning and platting jurisdiction of the municipality having the greatest population extends to such territory.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-18-5, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300; 1966, ch. 64, § 5; 1998, ch. 42, § 3; 2003, ch. 438, § 3.
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