New Mexico § 3-2-2 - Characteristics of territory proposed to be incorporated as a municipality
Full text of New Mexico New Mexico Statutes Annotated § 3-2-2 — Characteristics of territory proposed to be incorporated as a municipality, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 3-2-2. Characteristics of territory proposed to be incorporated as a municipality
A. A territory proposed to be incorporated as a municipality shall: (1) not be within the boundary of another municipality; (2) have a population density of not less than one person per acre, except for a class
B county with a net taxable value of property for property tax purposes in 1990 of
over ninety-five million dollars ($95,000,000) and a population of less than ten thousand
according to the 1990 federal decennial census and where the population density of
the territory proposed to be incorporated is not less than one person per four acres; (3) contain not less than one hundred fifty persons; and (4) contain a sufficient assessed value of real property and a sufficient number of
businesses so that the proposed municipality will contain a sufficient tax base to
enable it to provide a clerk-treasurer, a police officer and office space for the
municipal government within one year of incorporation. B. In the alternative to the requirements of Paragraph (2) of Subsection A of this
section, a territory proposed to be incorporated as a municipality shall: (1) contain within its boundaries a resort area having more than fifty thousand visitors
a year; and (2) have more than one hundred fifty single-family residences, as shown by the property
tax rolls.
Source: official New Mexico text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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