SENATE BILL 140

56th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2024

INTRODUCED BY

George K. Mu oz

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO DISTRICT ATTORNEYS; PROVIDING THAT IN THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, DISTRICT ATTORNEY DIVISION 1 HAVE OVERSIGHT OF PROSECUTORIAL DECISIONS MADE BY THE ATTORNEYS OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY DIVISION 2.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 36-1-8.2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1981, Chapter 25, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:

     "36-1-8.2. ELEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT--TWO DISTRICT ATTORNEY DIVISIONS.--

          A. The eleventh judicial district is divided into two separate district attorney divisions, which shall constitute two separate election divisions, as follows:

                [A.] (1) district attorney division 1, to be composed of San Juan county; and

                [B.] (2) district attorney division 2, to be composed of McKinley county.

          B. District attorney division 1 shall have oversight of prosecutorial decisions made by the attorneys of district attorney division 2."

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