N.M. Stat. § 73-16-15
Annual levy.
A. After the expiration of the sixty-day period in which the construction fund
assessment may be paid, and each year thereafter, if necessary to effectuate the
provisions of this act. The board shall determine, order and levy the total assessments
to be collected annually for the purpose of paying district bonds, principal and interest
and other needs, uses and purposes for which the construction fund is created; and for
the needs, uses and purposes for which the maintenance fund is created.
B. Upon the passage of the resolution by the board levying the said assessments,
the treasurer shall enter the same in the respective construction fund assessment
record and maintenance fund assessment record, tabulating and extending the said
records as herein provided.
C. On or before the first day of September of each year in which assessments are
levied for the construction fund or maintenance fund, or both; that portion of the
construction fund assessment record, or the maintenance fund assessment record or
both, as the case may require, relating to the property in each county, certified by the
board to be the construction fund assessment record, or the maintenance fund
assessment record, as the case may be, signed by the president, attested by the
signature of the secretary with the seal of the board thereto affixed, shall be delivered to
the county assessor of each county wherein property assessed is located, and such
records so certified shall be sufficient warrant for the levy, assessment and collection of
the assessments therein contained and for the certification thereof by boards of county
commissioners as in case of state and county taxes.
D. It shall be the duty of the assessor of each county to receive the said records as
tax or assessment books and to make and enter the assessment therein set forth upon
the tax rolls of the county at the time state and county taxes are assessed and entered
according to law.
E. Such assessment shall become due and shall be collected during each year at
the same time and in the same manner that state and county taxes are due and
collectible; and if further assessments in any year are necessary, to effectuate the
provisions hereof, such assessment shall be levied, evidenced and certified as herein
provided in apt time and not later than the first day of December in such year, to the
assessor of each county in which the property subject to such assessment is situate,
and with like effect as in case of other assessments.
If a county treasurer shall wilfully neglect or fail to collect any assessment provided
for herein at the time of the collection of other taxes, he shall be subject to a penalty of
one hundred ($100) dollars for each such failure, unless the collection of the
assessment has been enjoined by order of a court of competent jurisdiction; such
penalty to be recovered in a suit brought by the board to the use of the district.