{"data":{"id":"us-nm/3-14-1","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"3-14-1","heading":"Commission-manager; application to municipalities over three thousand.","body":"Any municipality having a population of three thousand or more persons according to the last federal census or any other official census may be organized and governed as a commission-manager municipality if the qualified electors of the municipality elect to be governed under the commission-manager form of government. If the qualified electors of the municipality do not elect to be governed under the commission-manager form of government, the municipality shall be governed under the form of government in existence on the day the election rejecting the commission-manager form was held.","path":["Chapter 3 - Municipalities","ARTICLE 14 Commission-Manager Form of Government; Municipalities Over 1,000"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18504/index.do","current_through":"2026-07-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:19Z","sha256":"b91fbf7c6ec654b2f9031894b2d090935575aa0f4605b488a82d5fad228ddfb8","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/3-13-4","next":"us-nm/3-14-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}