As used in the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act: A. 'convention center fee' means the fee imposed by a local government entity pursuant to the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act on vendees for the use of lodging facilities; B. 'county' means a county within which a qualified municipality is located; C. 'local governmental entity' means a qualified municipality or a county authorized by the Civic and Convention Center Funding Act to impose convention center fees; D. 'lodging facility' means a hotel, motel or motor hotel, a bed and breakfast facility, an inn, a resort or other facility offering rooms for payment of rent or other consideration; E. 'qualified municipality' means an incorporated municipality that has a population of more than fifty thousand but less than seventy thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census and that is located in a class A county; F. 'room' means a unit of a lodging facility, such as a hotel room; G. 'vendee' means a person who rents or pays consideration to a vendor for use of a room; and H. 'vendor' means a person or his agent who furnishes rooms for occupancy for consideration. History: Laws 2003, ch. 374, § 2.
New Mexico Legal Code