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SENATE BILL 290
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TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Linda M. Trujillo
AN ACT
RELATING TO MARRIAGE LICENSING FEES; RAISING MARRIAGE LICENSING
FEES; ADJUSTING THE DISPOSITION OF FEES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 40-1-11 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1957,
Chapter 33, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
"40-1-11. FEES--DISPOSITION.--
A. The county clerk shall receive a fee of [twenty-
five dollars ($25.00) ] fifty dollars ($50.00) for issuing,
acknowledging and recording a marriage license and marriage
certificate.
B. Fees collected pursuant to Subsection A of this
section shall be deposited in the county clerk recording and
filing fund; provided that the county treasurer shall remit the
fees collected within fifteen days of the last day of each
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month as follows:
(1) fifteen dollars ($15.00) of each fee shall
be remitted [by the county treasurer to the state treasurer,
within fifteen days of the last day of each month, for credit
to the children's trust ] to the county general fund;
(2) fifteen dollars ($15.00) of each fee shall
be remitted to the state treasurer for credit to the children's
trust fund; and
(3) twenty dollars ($20.00) of each fee shall
be retained by the county clerk ."
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