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N.M. Stat. § 5-14-2 (2026)

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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.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1980–1980 · leading case: Methola v. Cnty. of Eddy, 622 P.2d 234 (N.M. 1980).
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Methola v. Cnty. of Eddy, 622 P.2d 234 (N.M. 1980). · cites it 2× “In Section 5-14-2(A) of the Act, the Legislature recognized the “inherently unfair and inequitable results which occur in the strict application of the doctrine of sovereign immunity.”
N.M. Stat. § 5-14-2(A): 1 case
Methola v. Cnty. of Eddy, 622 P.2d 234 (N.M. 1980). “In Section 5-14-2(A) of the Act, the Legislature recognized the “inherently unfair and inequitable results which occur in the strict application of the doctrine of sovereign immunity.”
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