New Mexico § 49-1-12 - Meetings to be public; annual report
Full text of New Mexico New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 49-1-12 — Meetings to be public; annual report, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 49-1-12. Meetings to be public; annual report
A. All meetings of the board of trustees shall be held in accordance with the Open
Meetings Act. 1 Executive sessions shall not be held except in accordance with the Open Meetings
Act. All heirs of the land grant-merced shall have the right to be present at all times
when the board is in session and to be heard on all matters in which they may be interested. B. The board of trustees shall annually make public a report of all its transactions
for that year. The report shall include agendas, minutes, actions taken and all financial transactions. The report shall be maintained in a public place and available for public review;
for the purposes of this subsection, filing the report with the land grant council
to be kept with the New Mexico community land grant registry shall be considered filing
the report in a public place. C. The secretary of the board shall reduce to writing, in a book kept for that purpose,
minutes of the business transacted at each meeting of the board. 1
NMSA 1978, § 10-15-1 et seq.
Source: official New Mexico text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 49-1-12 ("Meetings to be public; annual report") is part of the New Mexico Statutes Annotated, the codified statutory law of New Mexico. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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