N.M. Stat. § 3-50-3
Definitions.
As used in the Municipal Parking Law:
A. "city" means any municipality having a population of five thousand or more. "The
city" means the particular city for which a particular authority is created;
B. "authority" or "parking authority" means any agent or agency of a city created
pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law;
C. "governing body" means, in the case of a city, that body in which the legislative
powers of the city are vested;
D. "bonds" means any obligation issued by a city pursuant to the Municipal Parking
Law;
E. "obligee" includes any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, or
lessor demising to the authority or city property used in connection with a parking facility
or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest, or any part thereof, and the state
or the United States or any agency of either, when a party to any contract with an
authority or city by which aid or a loan is given or made to the city;
F. "project" means any acquisition, improvement, construction or undertaking of any
kind authorized in the Municipal Parking Law;
G. "ordinance" means ordinance or resolution which may be passed, adopted or
entered into by the governing body of a city;
H. "parking facilities" means any space on the streets or off the streets used for the
purpose of parking motor vehicles, and includes buildings erected above or below the
land when used for the purpose of increasing accommodations for parking motor
vehicles;
I. "federal government" includes the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America; and
J. "real property" includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon,
and property of any nature appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and
every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein, including terms for years.