A. The term 'qualified electors', as used in Sections 73-14-54 through 73-14-69 NMSA 1978, means only those persons who have reached the age of majority and, for at least six months prior to the election, have owned, during the entire six-month period, real property situated within the district that is subject to conservancy district appraisals, assessments, levies and taxes. B. The conservancy district shall compile and deliver a qualified elector list to the appropriate county clerk no later than one hundred eighty days before an election, and update the list every thirty days until ninety days before the election, which list the county clerk shall use for that election. History: 1941 Comp., § 77-2731, enacted by Laws 1943, ch. 126, § 4; 1953 Comp., § 75-28-36; Laws 1973, ch. 134, § 1; 2018, ch. 79, § 145. ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For age of majority, see 12-2A-3 and 28-6-1 NMSA 1978. The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, required the conservancy district to compile a list of qualified electors and to provide the list to the county clerk to be used for elections; added subsection designation 'A.'; and added Subsection B.
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