Legal Opinion
Provisional Gov't of Santa Teresa v. Doña Ana Cnty. Bd. of Cnty. Comm'rs
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided August 22, 2018No. A-1-CA-35927PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOHNHOFF, Judge.
{1} In this appeal we are called upon to consider the counterintuitive proposition that, under New Mexico law, residents of territory who wish to incorporate the territory as a new municipality in order to avoid being annexed by an existing neighboring municipality must first petition the existing municipality to annex the territory. The Provisional Government of Santa Teresa (PGST), a New Mexico non-profit corporation consisting of owners of land in the Santa Teresa area in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, seeks to incorporate the area as a municipality, separate from neighboring…
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